The Wild West Suite. Part III, Ghostdance (Canyon de Chelly)

Duration: 30

Creator: s.n.]

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: silent

Description: Part three in the four-part Wild West Suite, Ghostdance is derived from the optically-printed recycling of a single roll of 8mm film shot while descending Arizona's Canyon de Chelly. Here a highly systemic procedure of recycling maximizes the phenomenological possibilities that occur with the consistent use of this interfacing process. As a record of the descent from rim to Navajo ruins on the canyon floor, Ghostdance has intrinsic narrative underpinnings: through double-exposure (in the original material), a reorganization of the 16mm frame into a cross-section of adjacent 8mm frames, and a strict progressive looping procedure, image-phase sequencing creates a balance of fragments from time/past and time/future. The spectator is immersed in a continual interchange of memory and anticipation; in seeking equilibrium within this flux s/he is placed in a state of on-going presentness.