Frozen Flashes

“Lightning strikes the oblong of dreams out of the darkness.” – Dore O.
With the flickering of images, their sudden disappearance and reappearance, impulses are emitted which set the imagination on motion – without dictating narrow content. With the film-makers refusal to establish a context, and with her presentation of scenes as frozen moments, the effort of the viewer to organise and construct meaning along the chain of images collapses. One feels beckoned to approach every moment, every image ever anew, to weigh them differently each time according to the various associations and suppositions which lie in the images. In the place of a narrative linearity, which determines fiction film, steps an endless branching out and interweaving of imaginative situations and feelings.
In some way Frozen Flashes is comparable to therapeutic projection tests. In a similar manner, it induces emotional reactions without alluding to a specific representation or situation and thus sets the experiences and feelings of the viewer in motion . But unlike such projection tests, which are marked by an empty neutrality and conscious artistic poverty, Frozen Flashes is a subtle work of art of startling originality and beauty. – Noll Brinkman, MEDIENPRAKTISCH 2/1980