‘Blow up’ is a visual pun. Austrian experimental film-maker, Siegfried Fruhauf, uses discovered footage of a man demonstrating mouth to mouth resuscitation on celluloid. The film is displayed in a way that show-cases the celluloid format as an object, rather than viewing the film with the content frame by frame. As the footage rolls the film is objectively abstracted with penetrating sounds of heavy breathing. As the ‘camera’ pans closer, the image takes over and we enter the film. It is our breath that now fills the image.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1002793
Language
No spoken word
Audience classifications
Mediatheque - not for children (ACMI classified)
unclassified
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - History
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, black and white and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan