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A tribute to two videos made by the Vasulkas in 1974. In these works, video footage was transformed using a Rutt/Etra scan processor. The author built a modern equivalent of the processor and also started capturing the electromagnetic fluctuations omnipresent in an urban environment. The result is similar to operating within an alien mode of perception.

#3 is a film with pure light, in which the images were created by recording the movements of a tiny light source with extremely long exposures, so that it draws traces on the emulsion. The light was fastened to a double pendulum, a system known from chaos theory that shows unpredictable behaviour in a certain range of speeds.

#5 explores the relation between image and time on the film strip and modulates continuously between animations with long exposures on the one hand, and snapshots that are enlarged across many film frames on the other hand. Images were made using very nonvirtual, simple reflecting materials and can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light.

It is a film about the discontinuity that lies at the heart of the film medium. All images were generated by intermittently recording the movement of a line, revisiting the chronophotographic techniques of Étienne-Jules Marey. It was the first Dutch film ever to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Images in the film are generated by systems in which the pixels are agents that are comparable to cells in an organism. Systems are bumped into motion by disruptions that cause a difference between some pixels and their neighbours. Film is part of a long-running exploration… Since 2017 it is also available in a horizontal version, under the title 43.6.