[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] NUMB BARES II
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Title
[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] NUMB BARES II
Subject
Television - test pattern
Video
Nursery rhymes
Description
"Numb Bares II begins with a Beckett-like sequence which plays on the convention of using gray bars or colour bars as a test pattern at the head of a video program.Over the gray bars, we hear (in place of the usual 60-cycle test tone) Cameron's voice uttering a low, continuous hum. As he runs out of breath, his voice dissolves into a racking [sic] cough, followed by the sound of his retreating footsteps, over which the title 'UN-BARS' appears.From this rather slapstick beginning, we cut to a sequence in which an aggressive camera points at adhesive letters affixed to areas of a female model's body, spelling out the first line of a nursery rhyme. In the sequence titled Keeping Marlene out of the Picture this voyeuristic aggression is completely inverted, with in-camera edits acting to remove the model from the scene in the moment she arrives" (-VHS liner notes)
Creator
CAMERON, Eric
Source
Jan Peacock
Publisher
s.n.
Date
1976
Contributor
Creator: Eric Cameron
Format
VHS
Language
English
Type
Artist Video (V)
Identifier
C35 976ac.1
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Duration
10 min.
Citation
CAMERON, Eric, “[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] NUMB BARES II,” NSCAD Visual Resources Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://nscadvrc.omeka.net/items/show/5524.
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