Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights your drawings from below or polarizes the light from the sides; it fades or dissolves on command. It has sets of pegs on chain-treads, like tanks: hang your hole-punched transparencies or paper on the pegs and it will roll them steadily in any direction, your background stage left and your Mickey Mouse stage right. Ordinarily, each consecutive drawing is recorded on two frames of film; with a few dissolves, which require backtracking, you might not get a minute's worth of film shot...
...Personal Animation. For example, in Part II, pixillation, or accelerated live-action footage, constitutes Los Ojos, by Gary Beydler, and Stephen Weatherkill's The Walker employs the mysteries of the optical printer, too multifarious for this writer to relate, to fill the walker's silhouettes with different background and patterns than his rightful landscape...
...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...
...where he finds out "you can't love two people at once, especially when they're married--to each other...If I don't violate everyone else's relationship then I have no function." All very arch, of course--"how the hell are you?"--Rolling Stones in the background, sarcastic and timely...
...voice "I wish I could die" over a ponderous bass line. At the coda, Lydon intones "terminal boredom," an apparent gloss to the song. "Fodderstomf" features a disco bass line and the refrain "We only wanted to be loved" chanted in a sort of Monty Python falsetto. In the background we hear Lydon variously maundering belching, and playing with a fire extinguisher, for almost eight minutes. One manifest fault of these tracks is their impossible length; tracks on Bollocks averaged around three minutes...