Cruising is a hand developed and tinted
Super-8
film that I shot 1 frame at a time as a blueprint for my film making in
the 21st
Century. As gratuitous resolution in both time and grain fails
to impress,
this cross between a slide show and movie has been an exciting
direction to
explore. I was amazed as a youngster at how Canadians spend
3 seconds on an
image at a gallery, and 10 seconds on the little tag next to
it. My mother who
was an art educator with a degree in biology timed
gallery visitors' behaviour
exactly with a stop watch.
I was always able to take in
everything even faster than that, and was always
hungry for more. Sometimes I
would get bored walking and play a game
where I'd reverse blink, just opening my
eyes for a split second once very so
often to take in a single "snap shot" to get my
bearings. I
tried to walk as long as possible before the next reverse
blink. It
appears that 6 frames per second is the new speed of perception in
the
naughties as not just me but our post-industrial culture develops mediated
ADHD
at a terrifying rate.
Just like art, I can never get enough of
looking at hot men. This film
was shot in 3 hours with my intervelometer set
at 1 frame every 3 seconds while
riding my bicycle and wearing only a sarong one
sunny afternoon. It
documents documents my unapologetically sexual gaze at
possibly hundreds of men
on that beautiful and sunny afternoon trip to the
Toronto Islands.
