From: Esperanza Collado (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Feb 10 2010 - 03:28:14 PST
Chuck,
I have written a few pieces which address this aspect of Paul Sharits' films
I would say your student could find it of interest.
The pieces deal with other themes too, but the matter in question is
addressed.
This one, titled T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G THE ARCHITECTURES OF PERCEPTION is an
elaborated film programme text (or programme notes) that I curated last
year:
http://experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
And NOTES TOWARDS PARACINEMA AND INTERRUPTION (THE DESTRUCTION OF FILM) are
excerpts taken from several past lectures:
http://www.esperanzacollado.net/2010/02/notes-towards-paracinema-and.html
Hope it helps,
Dr. Esperanza Collado.
On 9 February 2010 06:10, Jay Hudson <email suppressed> wrote:
> My understanding was that ESC was to be shown as an installation, with two
> projectors, the images on top of one another. I only have seen it
> theatrically, where I found it very difficult to watch. In an installation,
> the viewer has an ability to turn away more readily
>
> --- On Mon, 2/8/10, D. Mark Andrews <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > From: D. Mark Andrews <email suppressed>
> > Subject: Re: Sharits and epilepsy
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 11:26 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Novice
> > experimental filmmaker here, a trauma/emergency nurse by
> > day. My professional,
> > work-related interests are primarily neuroscience based. My
> > artistic interests
> > revolve around the intersection of early medicine and
> > photography.
> >
> > I can
> > not offer any specific information regarding your question,
> > but have always
> > found Sharits' work fascinating and found the
> > positioning of ESC around
> > photosensitive epilepsy odd since it is a particularly rare
> > affliction.
> > Essentially universal, however, is the Bucha
> > effect--nausea, vomiting,
> > disorientation, etc caused by overlapping images at a rate
> > similar to human
> > brain waves. This is caused even when the eyes are closed
> > since our eyelids
> > don't close completely and are translucent. First
> > discovered/documented
> > widely in the 50s, I've always wondered if Sharits
> > was aware of it. I read
> > most of his work structurally from the 70s within this
> > context. Shutter
> > interface in particular seems to me more rich than ESC
> > since it is nearly
> > identical to devices used to evoke pre-seizure brain
> > activity in patients--this
> > of course could be entirely
> > coincidental.
> >
> > I once
> > took care of a 20 y/o male who had a seizure while his
> > mother was driving across
> > the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Berkeley. The sun was
> > reflecting off the
> > water at an intense level, but was punctuated by the
> > pillars of the bridge. This
> > light/dark effect brought on nausea first then full on
> > disorientation. As his
> > symptoms became worse his mother started driving faster
> > which only exacerbated
> > the effect which lead to a full blown tonic-clonic
> > seizure.
> >
> > I've
> > only completed one film, but it is titled, Ictus. It is
> > part of a trilogy, the
> > other two are called Prodomo and Postictus--all are
> > references to the stages of
> > seizures. If interested, your colleague can see a short
> > clip on my website www.studioobscura.com
> > under the "states"
> > section.
> >
> > Again,
> > I'm a novice here and this may already be discussed in
> > the academic literature,
> > but Sharitis' work strikes me as being aware of the
> > fact that the pupil is not a
> > dissectible portion of the eye, but a photosensitive
> > element created by the
> > structure of the eye.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original
> > Message-----
> > From: Chuck Kleinhans
> > [mailto:email suppressed]
> > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010
> > 12:11 PM
> > To: email suppressed
> > Subject: Sharits
> > and epilepsy
> >
> > A colleague asked me:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm teaching my medicine seminar and
> > I have a student
> > interested in the intersection of experimental film and
> > photosensitive
> > epilepsy. He specifically asked me if I knew anything
> > that has been written
> > about Sharits' Epileptic Seizure Comparison
> > from the
> > 1970s.
> >
> > Anybody out there know anything on the
> > subject?
> >
> >
> > Chuck Kleinhans
> >
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