An attempt at life`s endless repetitions
100 Film Loops for Everywhere
100 film loops for 100 film-viewers. Each loop deals with one basic aspect of repetition in life and film. The essentials of each aspect are conveyed by endless repetition in the loop. The various aspects have been comprised in chapters.
About Repetition in Life
Rhythmically repeated movements were a basic requirement for the coming into being of our life. From our first breathing on rhythmically repeated movements of heart and lungs regulate our blood circulation and respiration, - day by day, and night by night. Regularly repeated phases of being awake and asleep keep us alive. Because of rhythmically repeated movements we are able to move.
The repetition of everyday rituals sets our daily course. Repetitions determine our working life and are characteristic for sports. Music and dance, poetry and rhetorics are based upon repetition.
Meditation, rituals, religious acts rest upon repetition and therefore enable mind-expansion.
About Repetition in Film
The film loop unites the beginning with the end, in this way creates a self-contained continuum. Each single scene, endlessly self-repetitive, therefore becomes itself a perpetuum. Each element of a scene is multiplied according to its characteristics. Linear movements become flowing and gliding, circular movements become spinning and rotating. To and from and up and down become a constant swinging and swaying. Self-contained movements ( 360°pan) become real loops, and not self-contained ones (drive ahead) become unreal loops. Real loops simulate a veritably existing perpetuum ( a pendulum), whereas unreal loops simulate a fictious continuum. The dynamics of each isolated element generates the rhythm of the film loop.
About Endless Repetition in Life and Film
In film as in life endless repetition is above all a matter of material, and therefore, fiction. For a spectator the fiction of film is at the same time also a real experience, and so an opportunity to sharpen his perception and to expand his mind. A method for focussed perception is reduction. A method for mind-expansion is repetition. The film loop combines both methods. The pocket-cinema represents my tracing the repetitions of life and film to reveal two essential elements of film – motion and time.
Concept / Realisation
Gustav Deutsch
Camera
Gustav Deutsch
Actors and Actresses
Wilbirg Donnenberg
Werner Kodytek
Hanna Schimek
Günther Seher
Irene Strobl
Geri Weber
und andere
Production
Gustav Deutsch
Support
hundertjahrekino
Distribution / Sales
sixpackfilm
Photographs
Hans Labler
