V-2’s Blues

I selected a fragment of film and, using an optical printer, reprinted it over and over. A few frames at a time, I replaced the image with frames of pure colour. Similarly, on the sound track, I recorded a sentence and replaced it with the letters that spell out the words of the sentence. I was interested in breaking down some basic units of films and writing- the shot and the sentence- into smaller and smaller pieces in a brief, concentrated film. The correspondences between the image and the sentence and the way visual and verbal order disintegrates in the film convey a kind of entropy to me. (AB)