Back and Forth

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Documentary / Experimental
Canada, 1969, 52 min

Directed by:

Michael Snow

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Dionysos 

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English In the original <--->, but for the (cowardly) world, standing instead on the immediate and unbearable materiality of the world on its ridiculous linguistic substitute, known as Back and Forth - the back and forth of the film camera that scans a single room in horizontal (and also vertical) pendulum motion (similar to Wavelength). The camera as a boundary to the viewer's perception, the camera as a closed interval, limiting the space of events with its movement and its boundary positions - film as the boundary of my world. An event, a character - a moment, a defined place in an ever-widening movement that, with its repetitive linear nature, resembles the movement of a film strip, in which each captured object is like a bead threaded on a string of constantly sliding film frames. Add to that the magic of editing, eternal pleasure for those who have fallen into the enchanting land of cinema, and which proves that above the sovereignty of the camera still hangs the sovereignty of montage. ()