Photooxidation

A city film, shot mostly in Buenos Aires, with a soundtrack by Alan Courtis that utilizes electromagnetic frequencies. "Through techniques such as multiple-exposure shooting and the near-constant presence of movement in the frame, the film's visuals take on a high degree of variability and elasticity – as if, in the sites of contact between the city and Mazzolo’s filmic materials, the contents of the filmstrip had been transformed by a volatile admixture of urban energies and photochemical agents. Hence, the varied forms of image 'noise' or optical opacity in the film can be viewed, equally, as the visual correlative of a psychological perspective on the city and as the apparent marker of a transformative process strongly impacted by material properties. If this image of Buenos Aires seems distinctly personal, it is not merely subjective and expressivist – there are aspects of its visual content (sparks, streaks, refractions, and flashes) that the reactive substances of the film itself have generated, changing Mazzolo’s images to a degree that the filmmaker as creative agent did not attempt to control entirely." (Federico Windhausen)