Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970)

[Fitzcarraldo]

In representational films sometimes the image affirms its own presence as image, graphic entity, but most often it serves as vehicle to a photo-recorded event. Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space. -Ernie Gehr, January 1971

Serene Velocity is a literal "Shock Corridor" wherein Gehr creates a stunning head-on motion by systematically shifting focal lengths on a static zoom lens as it stares down the center of an empty, modernistic hallway–also plays off the contradictions generated by the frame’s heightened flatness and severe Renaissance perspective. Without ever having to move the camera, Gehr turns the fluorescent geometry of his institutional corridor into a sort of piston-powered mandala. If Giotto had made action films, they would have been these.–J. Hoberman

Actually this film inspired software making 8O

EG Serene is available for the improvising of digital video in real-time. The software adopts and "open sources" the structure of the 1970 film as the basis for temporal reconstruction of your own selected digital videos in quicktime movie format.

http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/yarns/ ... /main.html

... and it's Opensource

XviD at 1405kb/s No Audio 00:14:52 (according to other sources it's 23 minutes, but... well it's what I could get)

Serene.Velocity.(Ernie.Gehr.1970)(fitz).avi

[trep]

Amazing Fitz 8O I wanted to see this one for a long time, a very important structural movie!
Thanksthanksthanks!

[el_saturn]

Many thanks, Fitz!!!

[by_MaRio]

Thanks once again, Fitz

[psikonauta]

Bajando

[vespertilum]

If it's opensource...

Thanks, click

Salu2

[Airgam_Boy]

Film inspiring software making... wow!

I MUST see this. I'm going to love it.

Straight downloading.

1000 x thanks fitz!

[marvin2kk]

Barbara Lattanzi is a media artist whose current projects involve the construction of software for video improvisation as well as other works of interactive media. Her work has been presented at such venues as the 2003 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the 2002 European Media Art Festival, and Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in New York. Her experimental software, "C-SPAN Karaoke", received an "Honorary Mention" in 2005 at Transmediale, the Berlin-based international media art festival. Her interactive media works have been exhibited at the 2003 Version>03 Digital Arts Convergence - Chicago, the 9th New York Digital Salon, Electronics Alive II Invitational, the 4th Seoul Net and Film Festival, and Turbulence. In 2005 she contributed a gatepage to the Artport website of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The production of her multimedia applets and software has been stimulated in part by the open structures of net-based cooperative venues such as Moscow on-line software art archive, "Runme.org" and Rhizome "Artbase", where her work is included. An essay about Lattanzi's software in relation to 1970s experimental film appears in Millenium Film Journal Nos.39/40. She currently teaches at Smith College in Massachusetts. More about Lattanzi's work can be found at www.wildernesspuppets.net.

wow, impresionant girl!
the best for my section of zxz videogems and nat-art
8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O

[oscarriutort]

bajando gracias

[fiddles]

damnfine movie this is, and yes the real copy is probably 23 minutes long, thou i couldv sworn the copy i saw was half an hour or so, perhaps more. thx!!