Rue des Teinturiers

Filmed frame-by-frame in the camera, the focus of each frame is adjusted so that certain graphic features of items in the street are extracted and inscribed onto the film strip in a way which allows their characteristics to be seen, when projected in succession on the screen, as parts of a spatiotemporal image stretching from a position on a balcony over a canalized river to the road. The film is composed of twelve 2 3/4 minute reels, each of which was filmed on a different day throughout a six-month period. No editing was undertaken other than joining the reels together. This was done in a slightly non-chronological order so as to avoid accentuating the more anecdotal aspects of the scene.