Cycles 1

A handmade film of a circular form that fluctuates in rhythms of light and soundCycles 1 is made by sticking paper dots onto the surface of the film and to its optical sound track On projection these separate instants are converted simultaneously into picture and soundThe gaps between the dots gradually decrease until a fusion of the material occurs the separate imagemoments coalesce into a pulsating ball of light simultaneously we hear rhythmic sounds fusing into a continuous rising droneThese transformations are taking place in our perceptual systems for if we examine the physical strip of film no such change is seen Apparently we register time through our optical and our aural senses in very different ways one chemical the other mechanical