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It is interesting to link up my thoughts

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later
Randomly searching James Benning in google and i found out that i once watched these twin films in hong kong international film festival, spring 2006. i remember the uncommon title of that film, and those still images that was dreamlike but realistic, like using expired films. however i had no idea about the actual city in his film (it might/should have pointed in the film but i did not pay attention), where i would be living two years latter. It was tricky to find out.

RR
I went to watch RR the Saturday under a wish to recollect my impression from two years ago. I believe RR follows the same style as 27yrs, which is composed by couple individual frames. In each frame, one part is still and another is moving, and the fun point to watch it is the longer time you are engaged in the frame you find the stationary part and the moving part intervened. Most often the subject (train) comes into camera or leaves from camera in a diagonal line. Above the line is the sky and below it the ground. Looking at the whole image and put my focus not on the train moving in a still speed, but the sky or ground, and it makes me realized they are also moving, only in a lower speed. Put my focus not on the train but other and sometimes I would see the train as an accordion: a fixed starting point and a stretched body. Near two hours of watching trains coming and going with slightly difference added, and viewers have a refreshing feeling from the beginning to the end: I think RR proves a very matured editing of playing with still images.
Ps. Somehow I still expect a crab appears on the foreground as walking the perpendicular direction as the train walking.

Math Lecture
I find a conclusion after the lecture when watching James Benning’s fascination on math. In RR or the Boggie Woggie with blurred impression I thought there must be a sort of logic to add in his composition of the images. It is the math formula applied to construct the images, an artistic conception that is made up on formulae.