Phenomenology Videos

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / direct streaming for PC " The fact is that images say nothing, if I may put it that way....There are no images for the deepest experience. The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. Of course, not everything is unsayable in images, only the livin thruth." Paraphrasing Ionesco (again) Sam Renseiw reconsecrates the inconspicuousness of commonplace in one, backward and shaky hand-held travelling. ("a critival poem: " If I am not mistaken, says Octavio Paz, the union of these two contradictory words (by Mallarme) means: that the poem that contains its own negation and that makes of that negation the point of departure for the voodle, equally distant from affirmation and negation") Enter the leafing by clicking here or on links above. (patafilm # 734, 02'30'', 33.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video displays another leafing. (lum # 234 "feafing through" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

short experimental docu-vodle featuring footage in front of "magazin du Nord" in Copenhagen, with a poster for the copdox film festival. November 2009; Fine soundtrack addition from Steven Ball / internet archive.[Sam Renseiw; video 733 for patalab02.blogspot.com]

Author: samrenseiw Keywords: steven ball shape of things pataphysics phenomenology magazin Added: November 6, 2009

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "..What constitutes the psyche in me or in others is something that is incommunicable. I alone am able to grasp my psyche. A consequence of this idea is that the psyche of another appears to me to be radically inaccessible to me...since I cannot have direct access to the psyche of another, for the reasons just given, I must seize the other's psyche only indirectly, mediated by the bodily appearances." Still immersed in dance footage from two recent exercises, Sam Renseiw continues his oblique voodle musings on the Phenomenology of Perception. This time, again, with a still frame observation with some added touches and automatic blurs. Click here or on the above links to view the caged morphology of body and space. (patafilm # 730, 02'31'', 34MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video also features bodily moves in space, in a more ordered way. ( Lum # 232, "reception triptych "01'00'', 12 MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " For example, if we are seeking to form an idea of, or to understand the essence of, a spatial figure, such as this voodle, we must first perceive it. Then we will imagine all the possible aspects contained in this figure as changed. That which cannot be varied without the object itself disappearing is the essence. Suppose that we wish to form the idea of melody. We recall a tune which we have learned to sing, and suppose that all the notes and all the relations between the notes are changed. That which remains invariable and without which there would be no more melody is the essence we are seeking. In the same way, if we are trying to conceive the the essence of a "social process", we will represent to our selves a social process in which we have participated or concerning which we have some historical understanding. That which does not vary through all conceivable variations will be the essence. Even when one thinks in terms of of the pure essence, one always thinks of the visible - the fact. But in the case of Wesenschau, the individual fact is neither grasped nor assumed as a reality, which is shown by the fact that we subject it to an imaginary variation." Further dwelling in the intricacies of phenomenology, Sam Renseiw subjected a recorded moment of etude exercise to imaginary variation(s), thus introducing both a tune and the reverberations of a social process. View the overloaded footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 729, 01'40'' 22,2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features almost a minute of full frontal, backwards projection complete with cameo appearance by Sam. (Lum # 231, "shadow dance", 01'00, 12.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Short experimental docu-voodle featuring excerpt from a concert by Love the Birds