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  100 Foot Pull

Untitled Project
(Fort Morgan)


Battle of the
Stand-Stills


Cross-Quarters

Iceland Spar

Very Similar To

On the Logic of
Dubious Historical
Accounts,
1969-1972


Seajon

Micro-Film

Errata

Richard Brautigan
Visits the
Micro-Nations
(Sealand)


Errata
6:00
16mm
2005




Errata is an experimental film in which I used a photocopier to generate frames of animation. Each frame of the film is photocopy of the previous frame. Both black & white and color photocopies were used to make this film, approximately 4,600 copies total.



"Errata is the perfect illustration of the sublime power of animation as a process of bringing nothingness to life... The film brings to life the forgotten, the unnoticed, and the accidental - and beautifully illustrates the notion of the trace." - Michelle Puetz, University of Chicago

"[Errata] marvelously shows how a simple device - a photocopy machine and endless reams of paper - can result in magic. By copying copies, one generation after the next, the latent marks and smudges take on a life of their own. Their shapes grow heavy or fade as quickly as they appear, but what is most striking is their movement - liquid, intense and entirely unpredictable. Errata shows us the shadowed footprints of the ghost in the machine." - Genevieve Yue, Senses of Cinema

Selected screenings:
Tribeca Film Festival, 2006
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2006
ImageForum, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
Onion City Film Festival, 2005
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2005
Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2005