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John's super 8 film

- Down on Me -

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Down on Me (1980/81, super 8, colour, 4 minutes, silent)

Down on Me (1980/2010, super 8 loop installation, 30 seconds, silent) Shown at the 8 fest 2010.

A Camera Dance, using time-lapse/pixilation and time-exposures.

John dances with, and is led by, the camera, which is running at one frame per second
and turning its own way on the end of a fishing pole line while being raised and lowered from rooftops and bridges. Throughout, the camera is looking down at John on the ground, who's looking back up at the camera and turning with it.
"Camera hoisting" by John's friend Stephen Niblock.

Many different locations were used, edited in-camera, and there were two shooting sessions, a year apart. The first was of outdoor locations. The second was of indoor locations (stairwells) shot with time exposures, creating occasional abstract vortexes.

"Unique in my experience of movies." - Jim Hoberman, Village Voice, New York City, 1982.

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