Aleatory procedures are used to create movement at the points of fusion of the still images of which the film is constituted. For this reason, all movements within the film are completely reversible. This reversibility is extended into the film’s overall structure, as the film is formed into a loop – a closed container for the film’s chance elements. Such a structure, I believe, results in the complete elimination of all vestiges of drama from the film. Hence this film is a companion piece to “She Is Away.” The sounds of the film though determined in their occurrence by specific features of the image line, appear to form their own internal patterns, which phenomenally exist in counterpoint with the patterning of the images. (RBE)
Permutations and Combinations
- Film Maker
- Elder, Bruce
- Year
- 1976
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 8
- Genre
- experimental
- Category
- art & artists, film studies


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