Video editing, 2024

Text and words, whether written or spoken, have a reading meaning, with the difference that a written text can be seen in its entirety without being read, whereas an oral presentation cannot be heard or spoken all at once. As with reading, you have to follow what’s happening as it happens. With films and videos, it’s the same thing: there’s a chronological sense, so you can’t experience all the moments of a film at the same time, you have to follow its course.

But what would a film look like, with its various moments unfolding in space? The process here amounts to shifting the start of the same excerpt from Jim Henson’s Time Piece by a few seconds in a grid running from left to right and top to bottom. A parallel can be drawn with Bob Kohn’s Muybridge Tribute, which uses the same process, but in a more contemplative way.