A moving-image study · 01

Tower AscentEight seconds.

Stay with a short work. Move between four moments, return to its original sequence, then see what changes when the sequence turns back on itself.

01 / The source

00:08 · Silent video

02 / Four moments

A closer look

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Tower Ascent frame captured at zero seconds — The beginning

Tower Ascent frame captured at two seconds — One quarter

Tower Ascent frame captured at four seconds — The midpoint

Tower Ascent frame captured at six seconds — The final quarter

A new edit from the same source

03 / Return study

The eight-second source plays forward, then in reverse. This sixteen-second derivative changes the order of the existing frames; it contains no newly filmed action and adds no audio.

Watch the change of direction. Compare the experience of reaching the end with returning to the beginning.

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Keep looking

The collectionHeld Force ↗Return to the three-film collection.Related filmMovement Suite ↗Open the original performance page.A listening destinationArcheologies of Origin ↗Explore the OYOTTA album separately.

Source and making notes

This study uses the OYOTTA-owned Tower Ascent encoding served by OYOTTA Publications. Four stills were extracted at 0, 2, 4 and 6 seconds. The return study joins the original sequence to a reversed copy. Both the stills and the new edit derive from that source.

The inspected source contains eight seconds of H.264 video at 800 × 450 pixels, with no audio stream. Its page does not state a first-publication date. No first-publication date is inferred here.

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