Topography Surface Writing (1983) by Jeffrey Skoller
Thursday, September 15, 1983, 8:00 pm
Jeffrey Skoller
Topography Surface Writing, 1983, 37 min., premiere; Moving In, 1982, 18 min.: Historical Film Study: Bringing The Blues to Jazz, 1982, 6 min.; Emulsion Surface 1905, Me, My Brother, Leon, and the Lumieres, A Hand Process(ed), 1977, 12 min.
“Starting from the adage by Walter Benjamin ‘not to aestheticize politics, but rather to politicize aesthetics,’ the thrust of my explorations ask the question: What does it mean to be a socially aware person who chooses to be active as a film-artist in the age of Reagan and Star Wars. Topography Surface Writing is a film of bits and pieces. It is a film without a center. Like daily life we move between events, images, sounds, ideas which never really begin or end; yet in their constant parade, they become who we are and what we are; it is the surface upon which we traverse.” –J.S.