“Black film stock is repeatedly cut and rejoined. The cuts are made with the angled blade of a splicer normally used for joining sound film. At each cut we see an angled flash of light followed by a thud of sound. The film combines rhythmic intervals from one cut per second to twenty-four cuts per second, spread across 6 projectors”.
Guy is a favourite of KYTN, and we’ve shown many of his films. Along with Malcolm Le Grice, he is another of the UK’s great experimental filmmakers. Over the years he’s made dozens of films, of which his ‘optical sound films’ that KYTN are interested in are only part. Through all of them he’s extended a line of enquiry distinguished by his central concern with time and light as the fundamentals of cinema.