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John's super 8 film

- Mother and Child -

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Mother and Child (John Porter, 1977, super 8, colour, 2 minutes, silent)

A Porter's Condensed Ritual (time-lapse/pixilation)

A sitting portrait of John's friend Lis Guindon holding her months-old daughter
Marie Claire, in their sitting-room in Cabbagetown, Toronto.
They later moved to Quebec and lost contact with John.

A single-shot film, taken at 3 seconds per frame over 2 hours, lit with a single table-lamp and using 3-second time exposures on each frame.

Mothers particularly are amazed and amused by this film, saying it evokes their experience.

A companion film to Landscape, both made in the same year, of a mother and child, and emulating classical paintings.

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