Man in the Box, A

Rather than looking outward, and creating a spherical universe around itself (e.g. Michael Snow’s “La Region Centrale” ), the camera is introspective, defining itself by how it “sees the world”; it never sees anything but itself. “A Man in the Box” is a camera’s photographic memory, trying to focus upon its own image. We realize that we see only what we want to see – that how we decide to see determines how we will see. Dedicated to Bill Wees, my eye’s mentor. Film to be screened twice, once forwards, and once backwards. (RR)