Język obrazowy
Pictures Language

Description

" The first artistic video tape ever recorded in Poland. It was in 1972.
Made, among a few others by Wojciech Bruszewski and Piotr Bernacki.

Its main idea:
In the first part we proposed replacing the alphabet, the commonly accepted code, with a different one, based on naming things in nature with letters.
For example:
E= ploughed field
O= sandbank
Whereas in the second part, the new code was employed to convey a written text about the transport of luggage in LOT, the Polish airlines. The text affected the portrayal of nature. If two letters were within the range of of the same video camera, it would cover both objects. And if the next letter was within the range of another video camera, there would be a cut.
What made live filming possible was an overall scenario for the person pressing the buttons in the transmission van, and partial scenarios for each of the four video cameras.
The recording was made on a Philips VCR, on an open-reel tape.
The tape has been destroyed."
(Source, website, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

"In the Film Form Workshop 1 magazine (1974) Bruszewski wrote about Pictures
Language (1973):
“It is proposed that an abstract sign of a letter be interchangeable with a specific
object.
– in the first part of the audience learns of new characters
– in the second part the text in transmitted with the new code
– the code consists of objects found on location in the open air”."
(Source, pdf, Monoskop)

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