BlowUp

The raw material used in Blowup comprises two shots from an old educational film about first aid A man demonstrates mouthtomouth resuscitation on a lifesize dummy the dummys chest rises and falls Fruhauf introduces this scene into his own métier turning the blowup metaphor into an image with a false bottom With the aid of a digital photocopier the strip of film was reduced in size to a narrow ribbon and Blowup shows this transformation in reverse