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Spare Parts

Scenes from old educational and propaganda films, cut up and arranged (deranged) in numerical patterns. Chance collisions occur with techniques based on William Burroughs’ writing experiments and John Cage’s music composition. The final section consists of 24 variations of 24 frames in one second of film; to watch all 6.2 X 10 (to the power of 23) possible permutations would take approximately 76 thousand-trillion years.

Film Maker
Lipskis, Peter
Year
1975
Country
Canada
Length
10
Category
found footage
Genre
experimental