Occasionally, they overflow onto the full screen. ON MARS Footage from the fifties is re-worked digitally using high contrast black and white, colour, and a mixture of the two. This suggests at times a much earlier origin and at times a much later one. The effect is to disturb all sense of identifiable date, and the more so since the borrowed film is set almost two thousand years ago. The soundtrack brings together a wildlife recording, thirteenth century music, and a spoken poem in which a solitary artist survives by creating a Mars of the imagination, populated with drawings of its inhabitants.
Liquid stone has both a ceramic and a metallic appearance.
The voice on the soundtrack counts to one hundred in an attempt to ward off an impending catastrophe. This is an experiment in making erotica of pornography, as lewd as the original but not as ludicrous. Clips from a pornographic film are slowed down and re-worked as black and white mirror images on a cinemascope double screen, with the white fades of the title breaking across the full screen between clips. The effect is of a continuous frieze of sexual encounters, which retain their force but are distanced by the formality of their presentation. Black and white is contrasted with colour, and fluid movement with straight lines.