Light years evoke imaginary of long slow motion and landscape panoramic shots in movies.
The following is a very interesting text by Walter Benjamin from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction that in a way highlights elements that are present in Lee Rosevere's release on Portuguese netlabel testtube, like its slow and almost still pace and its hypnotic nature.
"...slow motion not only presents familiar qualities of movement but reveals in them entirely unknown ones “which, far from looking like retarded rapid movements, give the effect of singularly gliding, floating, supernatural motions.” Evidently a different nature opens itself to the camera than opens to the naked eye – if only because an unconsciously penetrated space is substituted for a space consciously explored by man. Even if one has a general knowledge of the way people walk, one knows nothing of a person’s posture during the fractional second of a stride. The act of reaching for a lighter or a spoon is familiar routine, yet we hardly know what really goes on between hand and metal, not to mention how this fluctuates with our moods. Here the camera intervenes with the resources of its lowerings and liftings, its interruptions and isolations, it extensions and accelerations, its enlargements and reductions. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses." Walter Benjamin.
Highly recommended for ambient aficionados avid to the work of people like Marcus Schmickler, Edward Artemyev and Tetsu Inoue. |
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