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Rutt/Etra was a tool that challenged filmic truth
“CH: But the other thing about the Rutt-Etra was that it seemed to allow you to articulate some issues having to do image architecture … Woody: There were two significances. First, film could be taken off its boundaries. Film always presents a frame; the Rutt-Etra was a tool that took the frame off its boundaries. That to me was very important but no one else has ever commented upon it. Because I believe that once you take the frame outside of its filmic boundaries, the filmic truth disappears; it is no longer a window to the world. All the discussion about film being truth is taken away in an instant.”
Chris Hill, “Interview with Woody Vašulka” (1992), in The Squealer, Buffalo, NY, 1995; link: https://vasulka.org/archive/4-25/Squealer(5097).pdf.