Re: Raygun Virus query

From: Nicky Hamlyn (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 23:52:16 PDT


Thanks. Matthew Cowan emailed to say that the print should be 513
feet, which could just, at a pinch, fit onto a 400' spool, if it were
a polyester print, which it probably was ( didn't check) firstly as
it is a new print and secondly I'm not sure that 513 feet of acetate
would fit on a 400' spool. That would make a running time of just
under fourteen minutes, which is what it's listed as being,

Nicky.

On 22 Oct 2008, at 02:30, Mark Toscano wrote:

> Also, Epileptic Seizure Comparison exists in a distribution print
> at Canyon which is single-channel/single-strand, and probably
> running 30-35 minutes. So I'm guessing it was presented and
> available in both single- and double-projection versions.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Bill Brand <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> From: Bill Brand <email suppressed>
>> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Raygun Virus query
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 6:21 PM
>> Ray Gun Virus has an optical sound track and runs at 24 fps
>> as far as
>> I know. It is listed at the Film-makers' Cooperative
>> as a 14 minute
>> film. I'm certain that no print was stretch printed.
>>
>> Chris Sharits is Paul's son, not his brother.
>>
>>
>>> His brother might be able to help. In the last three
>> years the
>>> Sharits family worked with Steina and Woody Vasulka to
>> produce a
>>> major exhibition at ZKM about the Buffalo scene in
>> general and
>>> Sharits in particular. I believe Michael Zyrd reviewed
>> it on
>>> FRAMEWORKS.
>>>
>>> The running times given by the various distributors
>> don't
>>> necessarily mean anything. Paul conceived many of his
>> films as raw
>>> materials for various kinds of projection
>> configurations, loops, and
>>> frame rates. For example, "Epileptic Seizure
>> Comparison" is listed
>>> as 34 minutes, but it only runs 16 minutes because
>> it's divided in
>>> two channels projected vertically: 16 x 16 = 34.
>>>
>>> http://www.paulsharits.com/galleries.htm. Go to
>> "About Us" and click
>>> on Christopher Sharits.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicky
>> Hamlyn"
>>> <email suppressed>
>>> To: <email suppressed>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:55 AM
>>> Subject: Raygun Virus query
>>>
>>>> I've just hired Raygun Virus from the LUX in
>> London. The print was
>>>> 400', but it's a fifteen minute film, so I
>> ran it at 18fps.
>>>> Presumably, therefore, Sharits would have made it
>> to be shown this
>>>> way, although other prints I've hired have been
>> longer and I've run
>>>> them at 24fps.
>>>> The consequences of stretch-printing a film of
>> this nature are
>>>> highly significant, even though it's not very
>> flickery, and
>>>> obviously the sound is quite different.
>>>> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>>>> Nicky Hamlyn.
>>>>
>>>>
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