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Program · Bola, Shim and little Dot
Three test dummies in a measured bay. Every touch, step and fall is scored for where the weight is, whether the feet hold and whether a hand lands where it was sent.
front, three-quarter, side and back, drawn by the lab's own renderer
yellow · red shoes · a bola on a cord for an antenna
The lead dummy. Bola takes the physical, opens the letter, misses the stair and walks into every archive clip in the atlas.
In: The Physical, Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot, CINEOSIS · hybrid atlas, CINEOSIS · handmade, CINEOSIS · Hand Butter, Handmade · first batch…
teal · blue shoes · six per cent taller than Bola
Bola's partner. Shim holds the door, takes the hug, carries the heavy end and stands beside Bola in the screening room.
In: Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot, CINEOSIS · handmade, CINEOSIS · Hand Butter, Handmade · signs 1–8, Handmade · signs 13–41
coral · black shoes · seventy-two per cent of Bola's size
Little Dot. She is lifted, carried and passed between the other two, and she runs under what they have to step over.
In: Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot
grey test dummies · six sizes
The crowd of grey dummies who fill the CINEOSIS worlds: queues, parades, audiences, the people Bola walks through.
every vignette is a small drama and a crash test, read by four instruments
interactive pages: every figure is computed in your browser
OpenBolas Pencil TestScrub every beat of three scenes, frame by frame
OpenBolas Range TestRun 54 range tests, or load a video of a person and get the same report
OpenThe PhysicalStep through 47 proofs and see which joints each one drives
OpenDramaturgy Crash LabFilter 191 crash tests by instrument and play any of them
Bolas · videotextThree experiments from From Imagetext to Worldtext, acted by ball-and-cord figures: a call that builds a doorway, a door that needs somewhere to lead, and a pile of matches sorted into reasons.
The PhysicalBola reports for a physical and every test goes wrong in a cartoon way: 47 proofs in six acts that one skeleton can walk, reach, lift, slip, sulk and swoon.
Crash Lab132 vignettes in a measured bay: letters opened, shoulders touched, doors pushed, stairs missed, and the 32 Acting Arena challenges, each scored for weight, feet, hands and contact.
CINEOSISThe 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.