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COAGULA

Bachelor's cycle, 2005–2007

16 min., BW & color, silent, 16 mm

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Structural Scores

Coagula exists in three modalities: as a fifty-page essay, as a structural score, and as a 16 mm positive film print. None of these modalities is superior to the others; the cycle can only be understood through the encounter of all three. Its central question is simple: what is film? I approach this question through a set of interrelated artifacts. The four parts examine the key elements of the cinematographic chain. Gessoing of Canvas / Šepsování plátna addresses the screen, Projectionist Adalbert Levý / Promítač Adalbert Levý the projector and the projectionist, And It Travels Unmixed / A bez příměsi putuje the relation between negative and positive stock, between the light of the projector and the darkness of the camera, and Into Infinity, a Voussoir / Do nekonečna klenák the reality before the camera. The cycle moves between conceptual and structural film while remaining deeply informed by alchemy and the work of the Opus Magnum.

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Structural Scores:

Gessoing of Canvas / Šepsování plátna

Gessoing of Canvas score Gessoing of Canvas score detail

Projectionist Adalbert Levý / Promítač Adalbert Levý

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Sweater Pattern for Knitting, World Pattern

Sweater Pattern for Knitting, World Pattern

And It Travels Unmixed / A bez příměsi putuje

And It Travels Unmixed score And It Travels Unmixed score detail

Into Infinity, a Voussoir / Do nekonečna klenák

Into Infinity, a Voussoir score Into Infinity, a Voussoir score detail