Manufracture
A tangled network is woven with particles of movement derived from found footage and compiled anew: the grammatical elements “to the left, to the right, back and forth” of narrative space are discharged of all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of fleeting vectors, furrowed with traces of the manual processes of darkroom production. (Peter Tscherkassky)
Manufracture so intricately rearranges its footage that every movement within the frame becomes subordinated to the entire movement of the image itself. It is however also a film about the eroticism (and hence love of cinema) that arises from splicing strips of film together by hand and about the kind of fetishism that makes the filmic signifier moan. (Michael Palm)
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