Paul Sharits Third Degree ( Single Screen version) (1982)
Threescreen film. On the first screen, closeups of an agitated match in front of a young womans fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings of a rattlesnake, the phrase: Listen, I will not speak. The ribbon runs at variable speeds, sometimes blurring, sometimes slowing down, to stop, on which the image, celluloid begins to fry and to burn, then leaves, runs, stops again, leaves again On the second screen we see the first rephotographed; here the burns are both fixed or new (a burn in the second degree). On the third screen, we see the second screen rephotographed. The subject of the film is the fragility of the film, as medium, as well as the vulnerability of man. Both the film and the figure resist threats, intimidation, mutilations.
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