The other day I put on Richard Linklater’s Heads I Win / ...

The other day I put on Richard Linklater’s Heads I Win / Tails You Lose (1991) — four hours of film leaders, those splotchy, static-y, often countdowny things you see at the beginning, or rather before the beginning, of movies on actual film. I put it on and (I was alone in the house) just left it on, and went about my business. Whenever I came through the room I’d stop and watch for a few minutes; and when I was working in the kitchen I could hear it — occasionally a beep or even a word or two. I sort of feel that I experienced it the way it should be experienced.

(I had a GIF of a leader here but decided that it’s too manic to leave on the page.)