Adebar

“…And his works are sound films. Here, at last, is a filmmaker’s ear that creates in contrapuntal accord with his eye in the making. He achieves this, too, thru his sense of the perfect – so much so that if, for instance, Adebar is projected even one frame out of sync the whole track becomes exceptional ‘background music’ but in no sense the experience of his making…and if the projection is perfectly synced the experience is an indescribably new one for any with eyes and ears to see/hear it.” – Stan Brakhage
“In Adebar, only certain shot lengths are used and the image material in the film is combined according to certain rules. For instance, there is a consistent alternation between positive and negative. The film’s images are extremely high contrast black-and-white shots of dancing figures; the images are stripped down to their black-and-white essentials so that they can be used in an almost terrifyingly precise construct of image, motion, and repeated sound” Fred Camper