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X-TRACTS (1975)
Directed by Desmond Horsfield, Leslie Thornton
Documentary · 9m
This was my first 16mm film, made with Desmond Horsfield. For the image we created a gridded score of movements, both within the frame ('subject moves right to left') and between the camera and the subject (zooms, pans, tilts...,) using this as a shooting script. The sound was derived from an old journal, read out loud and then cut-up into the same units of time as the image, ranging from 3 seconds to 1/4 second. Assembling the material was largely mechanical, following the predetermined score. That a tonal portrait of a person emerges was an after effect; we thought of the film as a structural or indexical system of sound/image relations, and viewed the soundtrack as a linguistic experiment, working with the building blocks of speech. - LT
Crew
- Director
- Desmond Horsfield, Leslie Thornton
- Editor
- Leslie Thornton, Desmond Horsfield
Details
- Release date
- 1975-01-01
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America