at interval (1977 / 2006)

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at interval (1977 / 2006)
11.7MB, 13m22s
http://nathanielstern.com/works/video/other/at-interval.mov

For 'at interval', I captured the entirety of Woody Allen's 'Annie
Hall,' then removed all spoken dialogue from the film. Time is slowed
down, through emphasis on breathing, silence, mistakes, facial
expressions and music between the text, and paradoxically sped up,
through an immense shortening of the film - from one hour and thirty
minutes, to just over thirteen. 'at interval' compresses the movie by
removing Allen's characters' lapses in judgment, and instead plays
with time to accent similar impossibilities within language.

'at interval' was specifically created for for the 't-minus 2006
festival,' an exhibition and DVD produced by Joshua Goldberg and
Chris Jordan, New York City. It's likely to be the first in a small
series of "lapses," which play with time and language by compressing
popular films into a different space of relation.

nathaniel
http://nathanielstern.com