From: { brad brace } (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 04:34:42 PDT
http://www.bbrace.net/net-henry.html
This is a filmic-project that I started in the early '80-s.'
It was simply, a year's documentation of the firing of the
noon-day gun in Halifax. I was much more concerned with the
development of a ritual process of being in position to film
this moment day-after-day for one-year, than with the film
itself. I was attending graduate-school when this project
unfolded, so I would have to excuse myself from my
teaching-duties or conversations every day in order to
attend to a different moment. After a while, the retired
legionnaire who fired the cannon became accustomed to seeing
me make my way up to the fortress every day; occasionally he
would deliberately fire the cannon a little early or late,
just to mess with my ritual (and all the similar events in
town that were structured on hearing the noon-day gun).
Rather than have all these super8 outakes just run
end-to-end, I cut them up into fixed lengths (multiples of
10 frames I think it was...) and crudely spliced them
together in my studio. You'll notice scratches, dirt and
jumping frames. That 'decisive moment' is perpetually
distended and dislocated. Until now, the expense of making
prints (16mm blow-up was the plan) prevented me from
'finishing' the film (and in some ways it wasn't necessary).
I had the film transfered to video at the local supermarket
and then I digitized and colorized it at work. You can
download the first and second parts of this miniature (60x45
pixel) Quicktime film now.
http://www.bbrace.net/net-henry.html
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