Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2

2022 • Directed by

Tomonari Nishikawa

“I use a wood carving knife to scratch off the photographic emulsion on a looped filmstrip in this live performance. Scratched patterns, consisting of mostly horizontal lines, appear as an abstract animation on the screen, and produce noises as the area of the filmstrip reserved for the optical soundtrack is also scratched.”