RE: world war I ? Re: The Magic Lantern Gazette

Dear David Blair,

I have attempted to send you a message from maxweb (I think) but felt it may
not have "gone".
I wanted to express high praise, appreciation and thanks for the work, and
in particular Room 1 channel 4 THE TELEPATHIC AUDIENCE.
Watching it (twice now) I find it has begun the process of releasing a block
which has frustrated the completion of a film the soundtrack of which has
sat completed and awaiting an image partner for some six years.
Now, your digital 'treatment' of materials seems to me to capture the
plastic and melancholic condition which W.G.Sebald explores in all his work
with memory, the archive and place.

I would like to know something of your procedures, if you were willing to
spare a little time. For my part I can guarantee appropriate
acknowledgement (as you may define) in the credits, and I'd be happy to send
you a copy of the soundtrack (it's 10 minutes in length) so that you could
see / hear some reflection of my seriousness.

My first film was in 1960; all have been in 16mm; my last will be the first
THE film in the history of cinema (and quite possibly the only one) as I
suspect I share something akin to Muybridge's faith in zoopraxinography in
my love of "The Holcus Effect (THE)
In which 2D archive footage is transformed to 3D with no change at all to
the original material; indeed, paradoxically, the viewer looks only at the
original footage, yet now sees it in 3D, essentially exactly as the
originating cameraperson would have seen the view being captured (assuming
she had both eyes open at the moment of shooting). I have built a digital
optical printer to transfer archive shots I've been collecting since the
1960's, (8mm, 16mm, 35mm incl. Nitrate) and have received elements for the
soundtrack, kindly given by various piano artists, including Michael Snow.
This is in pre-production, waiting for a novel to be finished (and now,
hopefully, the film which was "stuck", to also make the light in some dark
space..

Cordially

David
Dr. David Woods M.B.K.S.
Holcus Ltd.*
16 John Street
Kingston Square
Hull
East Yorkshire
UK
tel 44 (0)1482 580290
cel 0781259 1772
dwoods@holcus.karoo.co.uk

*Home of: The Holcus Effect (THE)

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of David Blair
Sent: 14 July 2013 13:36
To: visual-media@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: world war I ? Re: The Magic Lantern Gazette

hi Stef,

in case you are interested, here is preliminary documentation for the show @
MuHKA,

https://vimeo.com/channels/thetelepathicplace

best,
David Blair

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