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Scrub solo 1: soloneliness 1999 / 9' Images, soundtrack, scrubbing, editing: Antonin de Bemels Dancer: Bud Blumenthal Production: Antonin de Bemels Belgium Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness is the first of a series of three film experiments between Belgian video maker Antonin De Bemels and American choreographer Bud Blumenthal. The image of time is greatly decomposed, at once stopping, being seized and then accelerating beyond belief. Time manipulation and associated image distortion occurred first when the dancer moved incredibly slowly in consequence to the dynamic low light automatic exposure setting of the S-8 camera during the filming in semi obscurity. The second "working of time" occurred after digitalisation when the material was scrubbed "in and out" in real time in a way not unlike the scratching techniques of DJ's. The character in the film inhabits, is almost imprisoned in, an unreal time which nevertheless seems natural. He communicates with his own solitude. [ back to the list ]