At the Academy

A foundfootage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was handprinted on a homemade contact printer. It was rolled back and reprinted several times over, to create a complex layering of both image and sound. The film explores displacements of a positive and negative copy of the same loop. Since the printer light also covers the soundtrack area, both picture and sound undergo identical transformations. Guy Sherwin, 1974