Oct
09
ENDLESS REGRESSION. On Jerry Lewis.
Posted in: Animation
Jerry Lewis’ philosophy of video: Lewis’ comedy of playback is also a meditation on the technology he relied on in the production of his films. Looping a scene from Lewis’ film “The Patsy” (1966) shows how the loops of the electronic video signal are included in the very illusion they helped to fabricate. The mise-en-abyme of his film is short circuiting the funny with the claustrophobic.
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