THE OCTOPUS (PHOTO ROMANS 02)
	WORK IN PROGRESS
	RUNNING TIME: To be determined MEDIUM: Photographs, mixed media YEAR: To be determined PRODUCTION: Public Radio and Camera Assembly
	A relationship disintegrates.
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	SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
	New Waves Festival/Luminato -- Toronto, 2009 (performance installation version)
	PHOTO ROMANS The Photo Romans series are narratives told through still images and sound. The succession of static pictures is an inquiry into that fundamental principle of cinema: the illusion of motion. If cinema is a time-based art, where elapse is required for communication to occur, then is a single, static frame rendered non-cinematic? After all, cinema is a collection of thousands of static images: The specator's understanding of the film's ideas is synchronous with -- runs parallel to -- the succession of each static image, in the same manner that a reader's understanding of a novel occurs with the passing of each word. But in film, the spectator is not able to discern each of the twenty-four frames per second, but rather sees phrases of images -- the blurring of frames as they persist in one's vision to resemble motion. Photo Romans deconstructs the illusion of motion, communicating ideas and telling stories frame by frame, word by word. Photo Romans is influenced by Raoul Coutard, who refers to certain narrative photography exhibitions as "photo-romances", and by the films Salut les Cubains (Agnès Varda) and La Jetée (Chris Marker).
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