TV Ping Pong (EOTWS)
End Of The Week Shorts #22 extract: TV Ping Pong (1978)
This is a short and somewhat simple experimental film that plays with video tape technology made by Ivan Ladislav Galeta.
In such, it uses what was a somewhat new technology - though video tape technology was invented for television in the 50s, it spread around the world in 70s because it became cheaper and so available to the public - to film two men passing a ping pong ball back and forth to one another. Taking advantage of the rhythm and repetitive motion of this game, various different trick cuts and exposures are used to warp the reality. The result of this is cinema being used to provide an alternative perspective of what is a very mundane subject, which in turn produces a commentary on cinema's developing abilities to manipulate space and time to create new perceptions of reality. Check out this short experiment here:
