Meniscus

The primary site of investigation for this article lies within the problematic relationship between the moving image sequence (film or video), and its representation as a series of video stills for documentation in a textual format. The works presented in this article aim to present an alternative, ancillary format to such documentation, allowing for the temporal dimensions of video sequences to appear achronologically - all at once, or out of order.

These practical outcomes therefore might offer comment on – or perhaps even collapse – the distance between the video still and the video sequence and its associated shortcomings in certain contexts. Beyond this, further points are considered: do such works present a paradigm shift – with the video still becoming the sum of it's moving image parts? If so, does the video still begin to occupy its own space as an individual artwork, emancipated from its role as documentation for source footage?

Keywords: Cyclical ; Layer ; Meniscus ; Palimpsest ; Sequence ; Stills ; Structural Film ; Technique ; Technology ; Temporality