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An early film- mostly an experiment in making an unchanging object appear to change. I set the head up on a spindle, with a camera in a rolling chair orbiting it, the way the moon orbits the earth. Beyond the film camera and head, I had a ring of 10 lights, some with filters, and at each light I had a person stand with a large piece of cardboard- when we started shooting, the people variously blocked and shone the lights- The end result being an object, that, while not changing, appears to be perpetually melting- or so some said.


The narration I tacked on was lifted from a book (can you tell which one? It was really popular) The narrative subject seemed to fit the visual image.


 
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