posts tagged ‘flicker’

Tasks, tasks and more tasks…

Lately I’ve been working a lot. Besides my ‘official’ job as translator and my own projects I’m collaborating (as part of mediateletipos) with the festival Sensxperiment and we have a lot of things in perspective.

Right now we are already publishing some texts on the subject of the festival, Sensory Immersion, but we are also preparing the first exhibition, centred in the Dreamachine. Today I’ve finished the translation of the film FLicKeR, by Nik Sheehan, that will be one of the two stars of the exhibition, the other one will be, of course, a Dreamachine.

I hadn’t translated subtitles before and it’s a hard job, and quite slow. Fortunately, we had the original transcript in English, but still I’ve had to check the film continually.

Is Sunday and I’ve been working all day, and tomorrow the week stars again with its usual rhythm and tasks. Right now it’s raining, but I’m to tired to go out and record this wonderful sound…

Watchings

Flicker (2008)
Nik Sheehan

Heroes, Volume 5: Redemption (2009-2010)

Muchachada Nui, 4ª temporada (2010) [watch]

• The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Steven Soderbergh

• Outer Space (1999) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky

• Arnulf Rainer (1958-1960) [watch]
Peter Kubelka

Induced Seizures

Epileptic Seizure Comparison by Paul Sharits

Watchings

• Geography of the Body (1943) [watch]
Willard Maas

• Towers Open Fire (1963) [watch]
Antony Balch & William S. Burroughs

• The Cut Ups (1966) [watch]
Antony Balch

• Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) [watch]
Paul Sharits

• Unrolling Event (1965) [watch]
Paul Sharits

• The Fury of Sneezing (Kurt Schwitters) (2009) [watch]
Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Readings

• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009.

• Décor by Timothy Leary [read]
Mark Alen. The New York Times. January 20, 2005.

• The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde
Ina Bloom. Leonardo - Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001.

• Gnosis and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Cinephilia
Annette Michelson. October, Vol. 83 (Winter, 1998).

• Review: Yann Beauvais (ed.), Paul Sharits
Federico Windhausen. Animation: An interdisciplinary journal. July 2009, Volume 4, No. 2.

• The Films of Peter Kubelka
Earl Bodien. Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967).

Watchings

• The Passing (1991)
Bill Viola

• Making of Scott Bartlett’s On/Off [watch]

• Sound of Noise: Synopsis par Jim Birmant [watch]

• Report (1967)
Bruce Conner

• N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968)
Paul Sharits

• Adoration (2008)
Atom Egoyan

Readings

• What’s in a flicker film?
Edward S. Small and Joseph Anderson. Communication Monographs, Volume 43, March 1976.

• His African Journey: An Interview with Peter Kubelka
Scott MacDonald. Film Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Spring, 2004),.

• Structural Film: Ten Years Later
Regina Cornwell. The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 23, No. 3, Structuralist Performance Issue (Sep., 1979).

• Special effects in Martin Arnold’s and Peter Tscherkassky’s cinema of mind
Michele Pierson. Discourse, 28.2 & 3, Spring and Fall 2006.

• Biomusic and the Brain: An interview with David Rosenboom
David Paul. Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1986).