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John's super 8 film

- Landscape -

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Landscape (John Porter, 1977, super 8, colour, 1 minute, silent)

A Porter's Condensed Ritual (time-lapse/pixilation)

John and his mother painting in the country in the summer. His mother has always been a painter and still is, at 90. When John and his sisters were children, she would take them out painting in the country, and this was a rare re-occurrence since John's pre-teens, 20 years earlier.

The film's background is also the painters' subject - a farmer's brown field being plowed by a red & white tractor, a grey barn, green trees, and a blue sky with billowing white clouds.
It ends with a peek at John's finished painting, another rare occurrence.

A single-shot film, taken at 3 seconds per frame, over one hour.
Two contact prints were made in the early 1980s, but the original can still be shown.

A companion film to Mother and Child, both made in the same year, of a mother and child, and emulating classical paintings.

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