From the Notebook of…
From the Notebook of...
This is perhaps Beaver’s most masterful work of structural harmony, binary oppositions and self-reflexive form. Seated at a desk in front of a window, the film-maker’s view on the world is mediated by a careful sequencing of moving mattes, which split the screen vertically, giving the effect of a page turning in a book. Gloriously shot and edited, the film is simultaneouslyintrospective and engaged in understanding the world.
Also in this combined programme
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The Ground
In the space which film creates, emptiness acquires a contour strong enough for the spectator to see more than image – a space permitting vision… -
Amor
Focussing on the complex emotions that surround love, separation and the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of the edited image and saturat
Film details
- Countries of production
- Switzerland, USA
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 48'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
