[Frameworks] reversed River Rites

[Francisco Torres]

Doesnt it take the mystery out of it? There are some things in art I would
rather not know how they are done.

2015-07-19 15:00 GMT-04:00 Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu>:

> All,
>
> I assume most of you have, at this point, seen Ben Russell’s River Rites.
> I just watched it an additional three times over the past few weeks as part
> of a show that I presented in Warsaw, Istanbul, and Paris.  As many times
> as I’ve watched it now, I continued to be confused about how the original
> action was choreographed, before being reversed in post.  Since I had the
> file with me, I knew it’d be easy enough to throw it into Premiere and
> re-reverse it, restoring the original motion to the film.  With Ben’s
> blessing (after the fact), I went ahead and did it and have posted it to
> Vimeo.  I do think it’s helped me learn a little something about the film,
> and I think the end (the former start) is actually pretty poignant in this
> newly flipped version.  I also reversed the sound and titles as well,
> although Ben tells me there was some work on the original sound that won’t
> be revealed in my “righting” of the finished audio.  I took the liberty of
> retitling this re-reversal too, which maybe means I think this is more than
> a footnote to the original.  In any case, I do think it only works in
> palimpsestic relation to Ben’s film, so if you haven’t yet seen River
> Rites, check that out first here:
>
> https://vimeo.com/25532189
>
> And the re-reversed version can be found on my Vimeo channel, for the
> moment with a password, here:
>
> https://vimeo.com/133853342
> pw:  brrb
>
> So, yes, an odd thing.  I’d be curious to hear any reactions you have.
>
> …
> Roger
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