ABSTRACT
TV (1966) is made up of five shots, maximum four seconds each, repeated in various orders. 21 No schema can be read off of this due to the seemingly random succession, and repetition, of shots. Expectancy can never be fulfilled as to what follows or what would logically come before any of the five shots. Whether or not an arithmetic “system” preceded the making becomes irrelevant. It is only during, and some time after, the viewing(s) that the fact of its being made up of five shots becomes apparent, and even this is not as to the number “five” but as to the fact of a specifiable, even if uncountable, number of (finite) sequences being variously repeated. Thus even the fact of a determinate number of repeats cannot, whilst the film is being viewed, be reduced to a mechanization which would state the number “five” or would even certify an approximation. Additionally, black leader intervenes, taking equal power to the “content”-shots. 41 Kurt Kren, TV (1966) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315852041/cc78498e-98e9-41a7-8739-5079aa5aaa92/content/fig41_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Whether the black leader is interruption or simply another kind of sequence remains a question which interferes productively with the possibility of (ac)counting.
