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John's super 8 film performance series (photo below)

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One-shot Camera Dances, involving "surround super 8" projector dances performed live.

A continuing series of silent film performances, with John hand-holding a super 8 projector in front of the audience. He moves the projected image around onto all the walls and ceiling, following the camera movements in the film.

Inspired by a projection by Anne B. Walters in The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre Gallery, Toronto, in 1981.

Eight different versions with different subjects, locations and camera movements.
In 2000 John began shooting Scannings of locations with personal histories which he tells while performing their projection, and he re-named this new series Remember Rings.

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Scanning 8 (2016, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, projector performance)
A remake of Scanning 5 with the same movements and performer, David Anderson, but in a new location - Roundhouse Park, Bremner Blvd., in downtown Toronto.

Scott's Scanning (1999, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
Film professor and author Scott MacDonald and his student Kyle Harris at the Hamilton College campus, Clinton, New York.
This film was made for, and given to Scott, for him to perform in his classes without John.

Scanning 6 (1998, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
Joe Behar in Craigleigh Gardens, Rosedale, Toronto. The camera and projector (projecting onto the ceiling) follow a beach ball passing overhead in a game of catch.

Scanning 5 (1983, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
David Anderson in Berczy Park, behind the Flatiron Building in downtown Toronto.
The first version projected around the room.

Scanning 4 (1983, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
Michaelle McLean and John Frizell in front of the Morissey Tavern (since demolished) on Yonge St. north of Bloor St., Toronto. Fast, swish pans projected within the screen.

Scanning 3 (1982, super 8, b&w, 3.5 minutes, silent, live performance)
Mary Filippo, Workshop Co-ordinator of the Collective for Living Cinema, in front of the Collective's building, 52 White St., New York City. It was shot the day before John's show at The Collective, then processed in time to perform it there in the show.

Scanning 2 (1982, super 8, colour, 3.5 minutes, sound on film, live performance)
A sync-sound version of #1, with Jim Anderson in front of The Funnel.

Scanning 1 (1981, super 8, colour, 3 minutes, silent, live performance)
Jim Anderson in front of The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre building at 507 King St. E., Toronto. A slow, composite view of the building's facade, projected within the screen.

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Scanning 5 (1983) in Berczy Park, Toronto

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