Video

Impermanent Firmament (In Four Parts)

John Knecht

1991, 15:00 minutes, Colour, English with subtitles in English

TAPECODE 2146.01

“The density of many moments in the video—three separate images moving in different ways, with a complex text scrolling across the bottom of the frame simultaneously —causes Impermanent Firmament (and the videos that followed) to have the disconcerting feel of overload… And then there's color: within the brief sections of the video, there are beautiful moments of primary color, black-and white images with one color detail, subtle color variations during fades in and out—a range of options beyond if not the capacities, at least the economics of most independent filmmakers of the time. The visual/audio complexity of Impermanent Firmament is itself a précis to the longer and far more complex videos that soon followed.”

-Scott MacDonald, “Continuing Deluge: the Video Work of John Knecht”,
AFTERIMAGE The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 46, No. 4, Dec. 2019.

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