Simultaneous Opposites1972

I composed the film by putting a Super-8 camera on a tripod, with a protractor-template set just under it, so that I could pan the camera to specific points along a 180-degree angle. I composed a script comprising numbers indicating where along the protractor the camera should point, and single-framed each exposure. The exposure contained pans along the 180-degree sweep, but between each pan in one direction was at least one sweep–and up to seven–in other directions or sections of the demarcated angles. The result was a kind of zipper-structure, with at least one frame from a different "sweep" between each frame of another sweep. I used this structure in a couple of other films at that time, including Intersticies, and picked it up again in the early 2000s, when I used it to navigate within prerecorded videos, as opposed to shots within a single room or open space.