Sept Visions Fugitives was produced in China. Cahen creates impressionistic transformations of landscape and people. He writes: “The looking and listening audiences are confronted — in addition to the pure impressions — with basic questions about work (the boy using a traditional device to shake the feathers from the mattress) about freedom, about life in China … and ultimately about life and death: the burial, the bird, the man with a sheaf of straw on his back symbolizing the passage, the beyond ….. I had to struggle to make what I know are stereotyped images my own. The pure impressions and raw filmic material are completely reworked, going much further than the original takes.” Source: Electronic Arts Intermix [www.eai.org]
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Collection
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1000089
Language
Chinese
Audience classifications
Mediatheque - not for children (ACMI classified)
unclassified
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → China
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → China - Social life and customs
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Reality
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White and Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, black and white and colour and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan