2. Martin Arnold (1959)
• Born in Austria.
• Experimental filmmaker
• Well known for his obsessive reworking of found
footage from old Hollywood films.
• Repetition, slowing down, stretched, flip back and
forth, reversed.
• Manipulates it by means of a home-made optical
printer, frame by frame, using no digital means.
• Undertones—of gender, family or sexuality—that were
previously invisible, but suddenly rush to the surface,
often with horrific humor.
3. Piece Touchée (Martin Arnold, 1989)
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1p
QVs96m8 (2:00)
• 16mm Film, b&w, 16 min, stereo
•based on a single 18-second shot from
The Human Jungle by Dir. Joseph M.
Newman, 1954).
•Orig - Woman sitting in a chair. Man
enters the room. Man and woman kiss.
Exit man.
• replaying the same action over and over,
slow it down or play it back and forth.
• Gender issue: Man – dominant, Wife -
subservient
4. Passage À L’Acte (1993)
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxjtcd4-
kw
• a short scene from To Kill A Mockingbird
•The boy gets up to leave and Peck orders him
to sit back down and finish his breakfast.
• Arnold chooses specific sections (consisting
of one or more frames) and repeats them,
making them stutter.
•When Peck jabs his long forefinger at his son’s
breakfast plate, we see it not just once as in
the original, but dozens of times. (3:15)
•When the boy leaves and the screen door
shuts, it reverberates like a machine gun
repeating deafeningly, endlessly. (9:42)
• a family kitchen but a conflict-charged
battlefield.
5. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgqH3PK6
-3Q
• Slowing it down, playing it
frame by frame, rocking it
back and forth.
• looks like a positively
scandalous, erotic, moment.
