Montage is the basic method particular to film. Simply through the means of sequence, the films on this program create a direct poetry of the moving image: Pneuma (revised 1990) by Nathaniel Dorsky, a meditative study of infinitely subtle movement; Renga (1990) is a collaboration inspired from the medieval Japanese linked verse form; Cassandra and Simulated Experience (1990) by Caroline Avery, witty enigmatic miniatures of images literally carved into images; Remains (1990) by Konrad Steiner, a trip of baroque intensity through the tortured legacy of Berlin; and Ron Rice’s hallucinogenic Mexican ‘travelogue’ Senseless (1962).
Thursday, October 4, 1990
The Immediate Image
Direct Montage
San Francisco Art Institute