A Third Film

Another film I'm proud of. This is a sequence on 35mm that has been put through a process called stop printing, where each frame is printed several times to slow the action down to a crawl. Then I used lots of dissolves and micro dissolves, some only 3 or 4 frames long, to create a dream-like atmosphere, which I refer to as a visual glissando. This is a fight scene in which the two actors actually inflicted real bodily harm on each other, breaking ribs, knocking teeth out, and more with the cameras catching it all. I was hoping to take something of real, ugly violence and re-contextualize it and try to make it a thing of beauty, almost balletic. Influenced by the work of Peter Whitehead, and Norman Mclaren's "Pas de Deux".
P.S. The title is a reference to the fact that this was the third in a line of Structuralist films I have made.