Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

"The mistake in understanding art is thinking its aim is communication. It's making something. Of whatever material. A secondary humanistic result of which is a point of commune, in an exalted state of being."-Ken JacobsBitemporal Vision: The Sea draws on footage of the Pacific Ocean shot by filmmaker Phil Solomon at Land's End. It has been described as the most hallucinatory of the Nervous System pieces. Ken Jacobs: "I enjoy mining existing film, seeing what film remembers, what's missed when it clacks by at Normal Speed. Normal Speed is good! It tells us stories and much more but it is inefficient in gleaning all possible information from the film-ribbon. And there's already so much film. Let's draw some of it out for a deep look, sometimes mix with it, take it further or at least into a new light with resourceful and expressive projection..."

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