Ruby Skin (2005)

A found footage film that taps into the poetic tradition of the language cutup while taking filmic advantage of the 26frame displacement between sound and image inherent to the optical soundtrack system of 16mm film The magentashifted fragments of an educational film on Reaching Your Reader reveal their chemistry where the splicing tape ripped a ruby skin of the emulsion away from the base of the film leaving a green tear at the edit points Ruby Skin is a material homage to the disappearing medium and some of its idiosyncrasies