Ruby Skin
Eve Heller US, 2005, 4', 16 mm
A found footage film that taps into the literary tradition of the language cut-up, taking cinematic advantage of the 26-frame displacement between sound and image inherent to 16mm film's optical sound system: You mostly don't get to hear what you see in real time. Meanwhile, the magenta-shifted fragments of an educational film on "Reaching Your Reader" reveal their chemistry where the splicing tape was ripped off the "ruby skin" of the emulsion, leaving green tears at the edit points. Ruby Skin is a material homage to the disappearing medium of 16mm film and its wonderful idiosyncrasies. (E. H.)
Thu 26/9 Kino Kinoteka 16:00
