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CINEOSIS

The crash-test family performs the 45 signs of Deleuze's cinema books, after David Deamer's taxonomy: first in the measured bay, then inside real archive film, then by hand, and finally as a making-of with a blindfolded Critic.

Five stages

  1. In the bay. The family performs each sign over measured worlds; a critic judges each sign from stills against its test and its counterfeit.
  2. Hybrid pilot. Six signs put into their real archive clips, each plate fitted by hand: camera, light, shadows, occlusion.
  3. Hybrid atlas. An automatic pipeline puts Bola into two clips for every sign: 84 passages.
  4. Handmade. Every sign authored again by hand, reviewed blind in rounds by fresh critics.
  5. Hand Butter. The making-of, performed by the cast, with the Critic as a character.

Films

CIN-01 14:11CINEOSIS · in the crash labThe family performs all 45 signs over 59 measured worlds, each sign its own shot list of cameras, cuts, mirrors and time maps. CIN-02 1:11CINEOSIS · hybrid pilotSix signs, six real archive clips: the dummies fitted by hand into each plate's camera, light and occlusion, from a lamplit desk to a moving raft. CIN-03 12:01CINEOSIS · hybrid atlas84 passages across all 45 signs: an automatic pipeline picks two archive clips per sign, finds the ground, and walks Bola into each one. CIN-04 21:46CINEOSIS · handmadeEvery sign authored by hand over unaltered archive clips, two passages per sign, each reviewed blind by a fresh critic. CIN-05 4:01CINEOSIS · Hand ButterThe making-of, performed in a screening room by the film's own cast: Bola and Shim show their work, and a blindfolded Critic judges the pictures without knowing what was meant.

Cast

the family, and the Critic who joined them for Hand Butter

The Critic

The Critic

lilac · blindfolded

The fresh reviewer, made a character in Hand Butter. He wears a blindfold because he sees the pictures but not what was meant, and he judges only what is on the screen.

In: CINEOSIS · Hand Butter

Review reels

CIN-06 0:51 · reelHandmade · first batchThe first hand-authored passages, before the first blind review. CIN-07 3:30 · reelHandmade · signs 1–8Review reel of the handmade passages for signs 1 to 8. CIN-08 11:57 · reelHandmade · signs 13–41Review reel of the handmade passages for signs 13 to 41.

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