[Frameworks] Paul Sharits multi-projection question

Tue Apr 1 20:18:25 UTC 2014

Thanks, Peter and Herb, for these clarifications. Looking back at Sharits'
instructions, the only confusing thing is he asks the projectionist to
follow a separate diagram of how to project Version B, and this diagram is
not included. But I agree that you can work out how to do Version B from
his verbal description, albeit with some keystoning.

Andy

Andy Ditzler
www.filmlove.org
www.johnq.org
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Herb Shellenberger <HerbS at ihphilly.org>wrote:

>  What Peter said. "Version B" was accomplished at a screening here with
> relatively little difficulty a few years ago just by tilting the
> projectors, which were running in the middle of the stadium seating, rather
> than from the booth, to the side a little at timed intervals. The
> instructions give the times. I believe the keystoning was pretty minor, but
> that's not the point anyway. Seeing the gradually overlapping images was
> really interesting, especially when they were fully on top of each other.
> Peter Kubelka's Monument Film screening at NYFF 2012 also used the
> technique of projecting flicker films directly on top of each other.
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> As to Ekrem's original question, I don't have anything to add
> unfortunately.
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> *From:* FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Peter Mudie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 01, 2014 9:56 AM
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> *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] Paul Sharits multi-projection question
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> Andy - you slowly move the left projector to the right and the right
> projector to the left until the frames align as one.
>
> Peter
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> (Perth)
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> *From: *Andy Ditzler <andy at andyditzler.com>
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> *Subject: *Re: [Frameworks] Paul Sharits multi-projection question
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> Dear Ekrem,
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>
>
> I rented and showed Shutter Interface to my students last fall, and will
> do so again in a few months. In preparation, I talked to some folks who
> have also taught the film (hi Jeanne Liotta!) and went looking through all
> the Sharits writings I could find for any reference to the difference
> between gallery and theater versions, but found very little on this. I have
> the same rationale - he made the two-projector version and it remains
> rentable, so I rent it and show it. It's a super-accessible work.
>
>
>
> A couple of things - the written instructions you get from Film Coop
> inside the film can are ambiguous. Use version "A." Version B mentions the
> effect of making the two frames slowly merge on screen - but gives no
> instructions for how to accomplish this. (Maybe someone here can clarify?)
> And the soundtrack needs some extra care, since each projector will have
> its own sound. So if you are running it through the house PA, you will need
> to configure the channels so it's stereo sound, not mono. I couldn't access
> the house PA for this, so my solution was to bring two powered monitor
> speakers of my own, and run 1/4" out from each Eiki projector to its
> corresponding speaker. More work, but as you know that's what you're
> getting into with expanded cinema anyway. By the way, the sound happens
> only on the black frames. If you know that as you're watching the work,
> it's even cooler.
>
>
>
> It's a fantastic projection experience and we all loved it. I left some
> room behind the projectors for the students to go and observe the color
> frames as they moved through the projector. If you can see that as you
> observe the screen, there's no more spectacular lesson in the nature of
> film projection (that is, the "conversion" of still frames to "motion").
>
>
>
> Andy Ditzler
>
> www.filmlove.org
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> www.johnq.org
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> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
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> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Ekrem Serdar <ekremserdar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Heyya Framers,
>
>
>
>   So based on his notes, it seems that many of Paul Sharits'
> multi-projector pieces (Shutter Interface, Dream Displacement, among
> others) are primarily conceived as installations. However, as many of you
> know, there are also "theatrical" versions of these films, using two
> projectors instead of four, and foregoing other alterations to the
> machines. (There's a bunch of these over at Filmmakers Coop.)
>
>
>
> The question: Would you say its correct that Sharits made these black box
> versions to simply give the films an expanded (hoho) life, especially
> during a time period when film projection was a rarer sight in galleries?
> So not necessarily the intended version, but a different (and obviously
> more accessible) way to showcase his ideas.
>
>
>
> I hear this might be a sensitive subject; but the way I see it is that he
> did make the prints, and as long as it's presented appropriately no
> problem. We'll be showing the two-projector version of Shutter Interface in
> Austin next week (which i had the pleasure of seeing at Hallwalls some
> years back), so just preparing.
>
>
>
> --
>
> ekrem serdar
>
> austin, tx
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