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| Holding Pattern (2000) Super-8 film, digital video [stills] |
Images filmed on Super-8 are projected onto the glass of a television
screen, itself displaying sentences and word fragments in a style of a
teletype machine. The whole set up is then re-filmed, essentially
sealing the two disparate elements into a re-conceived whole. The light
playing on the glass, from both behind the screen and in front, marks a
suture point - a graft that does not quite take, but continually shifts.
The steady hum of the digital 'read-out' contrasts sharply with the
stuttering, erratic display and quality of the film stock. The discrepancies between film and video - between digital and
analogue formats - parody the conflict between timescales, between
states of waking and sleep and the suggests the unstable limbo of the
insomniac.
