first edition Paperback
2012 · Auckland
by Nova Paul
Auckland: Clouds/Dent de Leone, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Nova Paul . Long quarto + audio disc. "Form next to form next to form is a book made from stills from Nova Paul's experimental 16mm film This is not Dying (2010) that was made at the film-maker's marae Maungarongo in the north of New Zealand's North Island. Using an early cinematic optical printing process of three-colour separation Paul's films render the landscape in prismatic shards of technicolour. In this book stills are printed using RGB colours designed to echo the optical process of the three-colour separation film itself. The traditional Maori love song 'Whakarongo Mai,' played by famed Maori show band figure and Kaumatua Ben Tawhiti is played on slide and steel guitar for Paul's film and reconfigured here by Karl Steven on 7" LP." --Publisher description. Seven institutional holdings in the U.S. at time of writing. (Inventory #: 2014)