Small Things Moving in Unison (2018)

Vicky Smith · 4 min · Letterboxd ↗

Perforations made directly into 16mm black leader attempt what Sitney describes in relation to Breer’s 70 as ‘five-frame holds’, whereby methods used to control the movement of onscreen forms have the effect of retarding motion. Small Things confronts the purely plastic problems that persist in the manually made film, of registering marks in the same place over a series of frames. At the same time it does not discourage the interpretation of these forms as a gathering, not so much of particles, but rather of a swarm or a murmuration.

Small Things Moving in Unison screens once in London: Close-Up Film Centre, Thursday 22 October at 20:15.