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Space transmission

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"Riding a bike within the field of vision of three cameras, Bruszewski arranged a “space transmission”, which broke the linear structure of the medium of film. As Jan Świdziński explains: “Ongoing record (TV) requires here a conscious understanding of time as composed of individual stretches of the current time. The author proposes a set marked for the separation of the movement of the registered (person) from the movement of the camera (observer). The points when their trajectories meet (when the person enters the field of vision of the camera) become subsequent updates of the times from t1... to tn. Projection is simultaneous; different records of the “protagonist” by the “observer” in various stretches of time are taken under comparison. What we also see is a rupture in the temporal continuity of the earlier and later events. Each of the times t becomes an individual time in its own right."
(Source, website, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

"made in Warsaw TV in November 1974.

The author rides a bicycle in front of cameras presenting the following text:
"The traditional film or television narration generally speaking consists in connecting bigger or smaller fragments of the recorded or transmitted events into one, base on the linear seuqnece, time course.
As opposed to these methods there is a relaying treated as a pure, unprepared recording or transmission.
Let's accept still another possible scheme exceeding the possibilities of the previous two, which we shall call
the SPACE TRANSMISSION
Here are the assumptions:
- I limit the transmission area to the studio space though it is possible to widen this area without limits.
- I limit the number of transmission chanels to three though this number may be unlimited.
- I limit the number of characters, though this number may be unlimited.
- I limit the time of transmission, though it maybe unlimited.
Accepting the suggested, possible widening of assumptions, each approximation to their maximum decreases automaticly the possibility of reception to minimum.
Let us stay with this simple scheme with the consciousness that it is the model of the unknowable situation.

"Space Transmission" is one of the possible realizations of the idea presented in the paper "On Space Narration" which was published by me in the first issue of "The Workshop" and in the boklet "Rozmowy" /"Conversations"/."
(Source: Warsztat Formy Filmowej, "Warsztat Formy Filmowej", Poland: Łódź, 1975, p.62)

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