tricolor

According to one of the established techniques employed for avant-garde film, analogue stock, rather than simply being exposed in a camera, is worked on directly, touched and attacked. In tricolor the film strip is worked over in this fashion: first, tinted frame by frame with a special paint for use on glass, and second, the material is scratched, carved and artistically slit. Spots flit past and spread throughout the image like mold on a wall. Minimal impurities and signs of wear and tear appear huge when projected, and green and yellow streaks of color flash by at the breathless...