2014 / digital / color / 6min.
For more than 50 years, I thought that Regular 8 was silent.
I had no idea that there was such a thing as an “optical talkie”.
Moreover, when compared with 16mm the sound is further ahead of the image by a factor of two – 52 frames (2 seconds and 4 frames). I made a work expressing the feeling of distance of 52 frames and the pitch and discrepancy of image and sound. I took raw Regular 8 film and cut it cleanly from the image area to the soundtrack segment with a film slicer.
I also cut the film and listened to the sound from the perforations lined up in two rows. (O.J.)
Made his first film, “Nothing” (64), in high school using Regular 8. Has consistently produced experimental films focusing on the themes of film as a material and cinematic structure. Representative works: “Bang Voyage” (67), “The Loop・Being Painted” (70), “Motion Picture” (75), “My Movie Melodies” (80), and “An Emulsion Painter” (09).
Tokyo Park Tower：4/30 11:30、5/5 18:45
Kyoto：5/21 19:00
Fukuoka：6/7 13:10
Nagoya：6/19 16:30
