what you just watched was an experiment.

the concept was to have an unsuspecting viewer give an on-the-spot narration to a repeating lengthening segment of video. the segment increases in length revealing, each time, more and more of the whole video.

here, precision and inaccuracy are strung together.

the video segments are precise. the increase in length of the repetitions is entirely mathematical: n = n + 0.1(n - 1) + 1 rounded to an integer. meaning: each segment is ten percent (rounded) plus one frame longer than the previous segment.

the narration is less precise and more human. the narrator is unaware of what's to happen anew at the end of each segment, and cannot accurately predict when the segment will cut and start over. this adds a bit of life to such a seemingly methodical concept.

credit is given as such:

concept by mike hale and japhy riddle

actor - japhy riddle
music - mike hale
test subject (narrator) - jenny nobody

camera operator - mike hale
editor - japhy riddle

all video and audio recorded analog and edited digitally

video shot on the quasar vk-100 vidicon tube video camera
audio recorded on a kenwood kw-5066 1/4" tape machine
edited with final cut pro

(c)1981 (but actually 2009)

i congratulate you if you can watch the film in its entirety, for it is slow and repetitive, not to mention painfully art-filmy. i confess this is the epitome of heady experimental film making. we laughed when we took a step back to look at it.

p.s. the acting was done at half-speed and then the footage was sped up to double speed.