Ernie Gehr - Serene Velocity (1970)

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Ernie Gerhr's experimental short film Serene Velocity. 1970. Silent (Original runtime: 23 min)

"In representational films sometimes the image affirms its own presence as image, graphic entity, but most often it serves as vehicle to a photo-recorded event. Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space." ‹Ernie Gehr, January 1971

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  • I'm studying films like this right now. Studying. That's right.

  • As Gehr said, this is an experiment about the change of perspective while adjusting different focal length in a zoom lens.

    1.Recording 4 frames for each focal length change without moving the camera.

    ex. 4 frames for 50mm, 4 frames for 55mm...

    2.same way moving the camera backwards and forward for different focal length.

    ex. 4frames for 50mm, moving forward for 50cm then backwards 50cm, 4frames for 45-60mm, moving forward for 50cm then backwards 50cm...

    edit, print and project.

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  • .Rape.

  • And what?

  • This is one of the best.

  • @jamesjefferys I know, me too, I think the prof's make the syllabus' to ex films before actually watching them, or successfully sitting through them in there entirety themselves

  • This film is scary. If you watch it more than one minute you end up seeing things.

  • Every Youtube video I go on, people are arguing and bickering amongst one another. Surprise, surprose. Just enjoy the video!

  • @wizen81 - that's why i was 'troll-spotting' him (not Totoro trolls tho...) - cause to have things like ozric videos and then to be a blatant fake on a vid like this, well let's just say there are a ton of seemingly different people that do stuff like make cool-seeming channels, so that when they post nasty stuff or similar about other cool things, it's to kind of background-bully people into accepting their opinion must be sound.

    mind-control.

  • @george4mon Actually, I retract what I said about your taste in videos, george. Fascinating stuff. From a filmographic viewpoint, though, this experimental film is fascinating. From a narrative viewpoint? I don't think there IS a narrative viewpoint. Scientists don't take science experiments and present them as the end product, as the public wouldn't know how to interpret it. Likewise, as this is a film experiment, it's meant for the consumption of those who study, not those who merely view.

  • @JustSomePerson888 Don't feed the trolls, mate. Let @george4mon go back to his Dragon Ball Z clips and videos about cats doing silly things. I, for one, think you're right; it's fascinating to see how the space being filmed changes in our perspective as Gehr shoots the hallway at different focal lengths. Fascinating, and a little bit nauseating.

  • @george4mon - how CAN it be shit? it does what it says on the tin. your 'critique' makes no sense because - well, how would you have filmed it then if you wanted to check different rates and how lenses looked with them?! there is no other way! you film things that involve a moving tracking shot of some type and change the shutter rate and the lens and whatever else you are checking. knowing these things is difference between 'good' and 'bad' film-making ie films that look like artworks or not.

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