City Edition

1980
Country: USA
Duration: 10 mins
B&W,
Sound: Opt.
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: 16mm / DVD / Digibeta tape / SD Digital file
Original Format: 16mm film

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These collage films are drawn from a vast personal library of sounds and images, steadfastly accumulated over many years. This randomly assembled and ever expanding pool of elements serves as the basis for a form of bricolage , — cultural artifacts and residues, cinematic odds and ends collected over time and transformed into works attempting to bridge a wide range of poetic horizons: the actual with the possible, pre-history with science fiction, magic with science fact, the medium with the message.
Ultimately these films document my need to put order to my universe, a place burdened by my need to make the puzzles fit the pieces. – AB

… the newspaper page…you have very loud and noisy headlines… a mosaic space made up of unconnected items from every part of the world at once…. The total lack of storyline… is as sophisticated as Picasso… – Marshall McLuhan

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