Peter Rose: ‘Stanzas of invocation, calligraphic illumination, flames of shadows. A summons to the underworld, interiority and an unknown territory of feeling. I wanted these tableaux to be of different registers… I think of the whole thing as akin to a grand musical gesture – eleven movements, of differing tonalities, rhythms, and references, and which should not be interpreted along simple symbolic lines.’
Also in this combined programme
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Aurora Street
Looking out through the window one autumn morning when passing time moves the soul and the heating can be turned on again. -
Aquatica
A head-trip to the nether reaches of Neptune’s haunts where tourists glide through guts of glass to ooh and aah at the mysteries of the… -
The Back Steps
A brief moment from my kids’ Halloween party presents an opportunity for a painterly exploration of folded time. (LP) -
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Treeline
A minimalistic video, a kind of repetitous stammering with complex variations in rhyme and locomotion. -
Flo Rounds a Corner
Architecture is unmoored while the animate and inanimate dance in this floating world of high-powered spatial illusionism. -
Color Study
A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colours, motion and space from a few frames of road-side autumn panorama in upstate New York. -
The Living Room
The Living Room digitally dramatises and multiplies chosen manifestations and implications of ‘On/Off’ and/or ‘Absence/Presence’.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL