Working with performer Rosalynde LeBlanc, Burt Barr has created a music video which overturns the rapid-fire schizophrenia of the genre: he limits the frame to a tight head shot, fixing his subject with an intimate and unswerving gaze. From LeBlanc’s lips we hear Otis Clay’s amorous voice crooning the Bluegrass classic Banks of the Ohio.
Also in this combined programme
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Location Interviews
A female interviewer questions five women about their origin. But they have scarcely started to explain when the questioner interrupts them and asks them to… -
Britton, South Dakota
A found footage film from the mid-20th-century heartland. Vanessa Renwick has resituated cinematic snapshots as an eerie, anonymous parade of children, confused subjects with unclear… -
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Une grammaire de temps
This video simply consists of a face of Kurtag’s grandmother, her father’s music (the composer György Kurtag), some barely perceptible traveling shots and the batting… -
Taxonomy (Death Stories)
People pose before the camera. At the same time an off-screen voice murmurs some ‘vital’ information. The video presents a ‘pick ‘n’ mix’ catalogue of… -
Living A Beautiful Life
An attractive married couple reports in turns from their stylish villa in Los Angeles about their perfect life: how they are, what they have –… -
Solo mit Chor
A face remains in the picture for a total of six minutes. Only the colors and the mood of the lighting change. Like a photograph… -
Folk Music and Documentary
Like Warhol’s screen tests, Seth Price subjects a symbolic segment of his own generation to the ‘portrait test’. Will this imaginary hipster melt under the… -
Reckless Eyeballing
Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era of black criminals staring at white women, this hand-processed, optically-printed amalgam reframes desire by way of everything from…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
