Perfect Film
(1985, 16 mm, 22 min)
TV newscast discard 1965; reprinted as found (maybe in Canal St. bin, I forget) with exception of boosting volume
second half. A lot of film is perfect left alone, perfectly revealing in its un- or semi-conscious form. I wish
more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to consider, and to leave for
others in just that way, the evidence uncontaminated by compulsive proprietary misapplied artistry, ‘editing’,
the purposeful ‘pointing things out' that cuts a road straight and narrow through the cine-jungle; we barrel
through thinking we’re going somewhere and miss it all. Better to just be pointed to the territory, to put in time
exploring, roughing it, on our own. For the straight scoop we need the whole scoop, or no less than the clues
entire and without rearrangement. O, for a Museum of Found Footage, or cable channel, library, a shit-museum of
telling discards accessible to all talented viewers/auditors. A wilderness haven salvaged from Entertainment.
KEN JACOBS