Ruby Skin
Eve Heller US, 2005, 4', 16 mm
A found footage film that taps into the poetic tradition of the language cut-up, while taking filmic advantage of the 26 frame displacement between sound and image inherent to 16 mm film’s optical soundtrack system. The magenta-shifted fragments of an educational movie on Reaching Your Reader reveal their chemistry where the splicing tape pulled away a “ruby skin” of the emulsion, leaving a green tear at the edit points. Ruby Skin is a material homage to the disappearing medium of 16 mm film and some of it idiosyncrasies.
Sat 23/9 Kino SC 18:30
