Program 8 - Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 8:30pm
Sutro Baths cave (Point Lobos Ave, SF, CA)
Total running time: 40 minutes
Conical Solid
Anthony McCall
1974 / 10 minutes / UK / 16mm / silent
Line Describing a Cone
Anthony McCall
1973 / 30 minutes / UK / 16mm / silent
Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the light-beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded when it strikes a flat surface (the screen).
The film exists only in the present: the moment of projection. It refers to nothing beyond this real time.
The form of attention required on the part of the viewer is unprecedented. No longer is one viewing position as good as any other. For this film every viewing position presents a different aspect. The viewer therefore has a participatory role in apprehending the event: he or she can -- indeed needs to move around, relative to the emerging light-form.
-AM
