Film Quartet/Polyframe (2006)

A small cinematographic bomb attempting to question the established definition of frame as the minimum unit of (cinematographic) time by dynamiting it in four fragments. The appropriationism applied in this work makes use of material found in Hollywood cinema (Singin' in the rain, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952); Pink Panther; Buster Keaton; etc., the first avant-garde period (Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929) and American experimental film (Wavelength, Michael Snow, 1966-1967). Such method makes possible, therefore, to maintain image ecology while it provides an analysis of the history of cinema. An explosive artifact has been inscribed as cinematographic notation on musical staffs in order to facilitate the interpretation and development of the piece beyond its mere projection. Such being the case, unchanging cinematographic would pushed for their reinvention-destruction-explosion. This piece celebrates the 50th anniversary of A Movie (1958), by Bruce Conner (1933-2008).