The Short Film Series exemplifies the potential richness of a serial approach to film form. The modesty and simplicity of each segment are translated into a subtle network of correspondences in the context of other segments. While there is a potentially infinite set of associations and comparisons which could be made, certain fundamental points are elicited by the ‘serial’ method of making and exhibiting films. The various segments insist on being considered in the context of other segments, and not as discrete objects; those objects are significantly altered as the immediate order/context is altered. Responsibility for the selection and order of these segments is conferred to the hirer… A corresponding freedom on the part of the film-maker as artistic-subject is exemplified in the way the film is conceived, executed, inflected over a long period of time; it acquires a highly flexible, indeterminate quality. The work is in no sense a ‘work-in-progress’ as that term is currently understood; it is rather a ‘progressive work’. (Deke Dusinberre, Afterimage 8/9-1981)At the first screening, Guy Sherwin will perform his ‘Man with Mirror’, at the second Filter Beds will be shown.
