Trapline
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Canada / United Kingdom, 1976 (experimental, 18 minutes, colour)
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Film Description:
"Trapline represents a new way of considering film as a vehicle of projected movement... The film is composed entirely of static camera shots."
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre'
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(sources)
Quotes about Trapline
"Because the space within the frame contains little to hold our interest, our
attention is drawn to the source of the sounds emanating from off-screen
locations. By placing so much of the content of the film in the off-screen
sound and by using shots of prolonged durations, Epp suggests the notion
of absence that resides in photographic representation."
-- R. Bruce Elder
(source)
"Several filmmakers continue to explore space and landscape on film. [...]
Ellie Epp's Trapline (1975) is the most cooly beautiful of all:
filmed in the Kensington baths, London, it sets a sequence of geometrically
organized shots, outwardly but gently alive with light changes, ripples and
reflections, within the continuous, distantly reverberant sound space of the
entire building."
-- Tony Reif
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Bibliography for Trapline
Brief Sections of Books
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Elder, R. Bruce. Image and Identity: Reflections
on Canadian Film and Culture. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989.
(pp. 288-290)
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Elder, R. Bruce. "Image: Representation and Object: The Photographic Image in Canadian Avant-Garde Film."
["Originally prepared in 1982 for the Okanada Berlin Exhibition."]
In Take Two, edited by Seth Feldman. Toronto: Irwin, 1984.
(pp. 258-259)
