X-TRACTS
This was my first 16mm film, made with Desmond Horsfield. For the image we created a gridded score of movements, both within the frame ('subject moves right to left') and between the camera and the subject (zooms, pans, tilts...,) using this as a shooting script. The sound was derived from an old journal, read out loud and then cut-up into the same units of time as the image, ranging from 3 seconds to 1/4 second. Assembling the material was largely mechanical, following the predetermined score. That a tonal portrait of a person emerges was an after effect; we thought of the film as a structural or indexical system of sound/image relations, and viewed the soundtrack as a linguistic experiment, working with the building blocks of speech. - LT
- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- EN
- woman director
Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical1 Jan 1975
Frequently asked questions
- When was X-TRACTS released?
- X-TRACTS was released on 1 January 1975.
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- Who directed X-TRACTS?
- X-TRACTS (1975) was directed by Leslie Thornton.
- How long is X-TRACTS?
- X-TRACTS runs for 9m.
