From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 18:30:28 PDT
Also, Epileptic Seizure Comparison exists in a distribution print at Canyon which is single-channel/single-strand, and probably running 30-35 minutes. So I'm guessing it was presented and available in both single- and double-projection versions.
Mark
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Bill Brand <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Bill Brand <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Raygun Virus query
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 6:21 PM
> Ray Gun Virus has an optical sound track and runs at 24 fps
> as far as
> I know. It is listed at the Film-makers' Cooperative
> as a 14 minute
> film. I'm certain that no print was stretch printed.
>
> Chris Sharits is Paul's son, not his brother.
>
>
> >His brother might be able to help. In the last three
> years the
> >Sharits family worked with Steina and Woody Vasulka to
> produce a
> >major exhibition at ZKM about the Buffalo scene in
> general and
> >Sharits in particular. I believe Michael Zyrd reviewed
> it on
> >FRAMEWORKS.
> >
> >The running times given by the various distributors
> don't
> >necessarily mean anything. Paul conceived many of his
> films as raw
> >materials for various kinds of projection
> configurations, loops, and
> >frame rates. For example, "Epileptic Seizure
> Comparison" is listed
> >as 34 minutes, but it only runs 16 minutes because
> it's divided in
> >two channels projected vertically: 16 x 16 = 34.
> >
> >http://www.paulsharits.com/galleries.htm. Go to
> "About Us" and click
> >on Christopher Sharits.
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicky
> Hamlyn"
> ><email suppressed>
> >To: <email suppressed>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:55 AM
> >Subject: Raygun Virus query
> >
> >>I've just hired Raygun Virus from the LUX in
> London. The print was
> >>400', but it's a fifteen minute film, so I
> ran it at 18fps.
> >>Presumably, therefore, Sharits would have made it
> to be shown this
> >>way, although other prints I've hired have been
> longer and I've run
> >>them at 24fps.
> >>The consequences of stretch-printing a film of
> this nature are
> >>highly significant, even though it's not very
> flickery, and
> >>obviously the sound is quite different.
> >>Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >>Nicky Hamlyn.
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
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>
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