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“Splitstream” 1978: Vintage 16 mm avant-garde film on relic VHS tape (Stephen Arthur Bowlsby)
About this film
A split screen shows two tightly synchronized, "impossible" shots of the same scene: a moving POV camera showing what the central character is looking at, and a stationary wide shot, both framing the entire action simultaneously. The deliberate positioning of the static, detached view above the erratic, close-up subjective POV of the central character lends an uneasy feeling to it. At the start of the film, we see the central character's dream before he wakes up and comes out onto his balcony in the top screen (the bottom screen becomes his POV looking out the window, in sync with the top view.) Set in West Vancouver, BC. Made by Stephen Arthur Bowlsby before attending film school, with the assistance of a Film Production Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, 1978. Awarded First Prize (Experimental) in the Long Island International Film Festival, 1979, and Fred A. Niles Communication award at the Chicago International Film Festival, 1979 ROOTS IN '70S AVANT-GARDE CINEMA THEORY Excerpt from later Canada Council proposal for Tran Scan (granted in 2002): “It may be important to note that I received a 1978 Canada Council Film Production Grant for an experimental "frame of referen…
Directors & creators
Stephen Arthur Bowlsby
Subjects
Independent film, untrained, split screen, deteriorated, relic, vintage, ethnographic, historical artifact, memorial, legacy, antique, 1970s, experimental film, avant-garde film, visionary film, 16mm, 16-mm, telecine VHS transfer, image loss, restored, Vancouver, Canada, Stephen Bowlsby, Stephen Arthur
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