Stuart Pound – Codex (1979)

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London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK’s capital city and its capacity to alienate and atomise people. Images printed using custom-made equipment at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op stagger forward and back in precise rhythms and establish both a spatial and emotional map of the various night-time locations seen here.

With a background in computers, Stuart Pound manipulated the film printing equipment at the London Filmmaker’s Co-op with a musical, technical virtuosity – as well as a lot of patience – building complex interweaving sequences of distinctly varying material. Codex was one of his very last pieces made on film and, unusually, it focuses on just one broad subject: London spaces, inside and out. Movement through place progresses as if controlled entirely artificially – by a computer or CCTV – while the accompanying music lends the scenarios an undeniable lyricism and emotional resonance.. Not often screened, Codex is a powerful and significant work from the later 1970s era of LFMC.

Codex(1979).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 0 min
Size: 	534 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	676x540 
Aspect ratio:  	5:4
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	986 kb/s
BPP: 	0.108
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A84BBB24E34E916/Codex(1979).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None