For Essentials of the Film
Mikio Saito & Youngho Lee
Performance is to project the 16mm film with loop structure, and during the projection we make scratch directly on the film. This is not for destruction or reconstruction of the work, but the last step to complete this film work.
Our film has just two kind of pictures, that are solid white and black, and has no sound. We make the sound by scratching the magnetic part of the film to correspondent with the pictures (White pictures to sound, Black pictures to silence) at the same time during the film pojection.
These four essentials are realised by one of the very important avante garde film maker, Peter Kubelka (b.1934, Austria) 's film called "Arnulf Rainer", in which film he tried to reduce the cinema to the four essentials,
"Licht(light)" "Dunkel(dark)" "Ton(sound)" "Scweigen(Silence)"
and wrote scores like music.
We compose our film with black and white pictures. In the beginning of projection it will be an incomplete film, then by our scratch improvisation, silent film will have noise sound gradually, and at end, it will become the film, which has four essentials.
From the 5th to the 12th of April
Private view - 4th April 7pm ~
