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Bill Seaman «The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers» | Screenshot from the CD artintact1
Bill Seaman, «The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers», 1991
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Australia | 28' | Concept: Bill Seaman | Director: Bill Seaman | Camera: Bill Seaman | Sound: Bill Seaman | Music: Suhanya Raffel (Cello), Bill Seaman | Programming: New York Production and Design Crows Nest | Schnitt: Bill Seaman, Bernadette Jones | Edition / Production: Bill Seaman / ICC Tokio | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe
 

 Bill Seaman
«The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers»

33 brief image and musical scenes are each based on a sentence of ten words. These »exquisite« image and sound compositions are mechanically combined, but internally organized by a poetic logic (»shivers«). »The fragmentary aspect of ›splinter‹ as well as the oscillation of ›trembles‹ release appropriate associations, as the coherences in meaning of the work are formed into sentences of oscillating sense from the 330 fragmentations of the menu.«

 

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