Marie has made her short film—Flying Saucey!—much shorter. In order to put her film into a hand-cranked mutoscope, she cut her film from 9 minutes to 9 seconds. The viewer animates the (approx.) 300 still frames by turning the crank and peering into the Magic Box, one viewer at a time.
Because I know you’re dying to know, click HERE for the specs of an original c.1900 mutoscope. But it sounds like the Magic Box is no ordinary mutoscope. It was designed by Sanz de Santamaria and sounds like a bit of an art object.
The process of cutting 9 minutes of film into 300 frames must have been an adventure in editing. In her words:
It thus investigates an entirely different approach to film editing, with the goal of developing an intimate relationship to film since the option of setting the box into motion or of facing a still image is left to the initiative of an audience reduced to one person at a time.
Here are the details: LUXE Gallery, June 24th, 6-8pm, 24 West 57th Street, Suite 505, New York, NY 10019, Phone: 212. 582.4425
Also, two of her films are being shown at the Wexner Center (Columbus, OH) in their video installation space, The Box, during the month of July. Hey, it’s free, it’s air-conditioned, it’s heavily-referenced, whimsical short film--what more could you want?
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