[Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens" (Albert Alcoz)

[Robert Withers]

Hello Albert,
I enjoyed a few minutes of the film you posted, even with my non-existent Spanish.

It raises a question I’ve puzzled over. We used to be bemused by the fact that, since film projection is intermittent and interrupted by a shutter, blocking light to the screen, we were perhaps sitting in darkness during half of a screening, watching the persistent images in our minds. It’s hard to research how video technology works comparatively, but I find some suggestions that there is no similar dark interval in video projection (if there is it’s fleeting — the blanking interval etc.) so I wonder how the video technology affects our physiology.

Can anyone share info or a source for info or thoughts on info about this? 

Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers
withersr at earthlink.net
202 West 80 St #5W NYNY 10024


From: Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com <mailto:albertalcoz at gmail.com>>
Subject: [Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens"
Date: March 30, 2019 at 4:15:03 AM EDT
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>>


Hello,

I'm writing this email to share a video essay titled "All the Dark Screens" created by the curator Alexandra Laudo and me under the project Soy Cámara by the CCCB:
http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229 <http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229>

It is a 25 minute video –with an Spanish voice over– where some esthetic and ideological issues are exemplified through experimental films and artist's videos:

In a society dominated by the power of screens and images, audiovisual darkness can be a strategy of resistance. We tend to associate screens with light, but darkness has been consubstantial with audiovisual creation since the dawn of the cinema. “All the Dark Screens" presents a fragmentary genealogy of the use and presence of opacity and the absence of image in cinematographic and video creation, and reflects on the poetic and political power of these forms of audiovisual iconoclasm, and on their relation with our ways of seeing and not seeing.

The points of departure are the video/action by Scott Stark switching off public TV monitors ("A Better World (for Rick P)" <https://vimeo.com/11156435> ) and the idea questioned here by Yoel Miranda on October of 2007 ("how much of what we see is black?" <http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw36/0610.html>).

Since it is an informative and pedagogical video, with dozens of short clips by independent filmmakers credited at the end, would be great if you to share it through social networks.

All the best,
Albert Alcoz
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