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SHORT SENTENCES

By David Finkelstein | June 2007

“Short Sentences” fuses the genres of the diary film, task-oriented performance art using nontrained performers, and abstract language, to create a sumptuous feast of human diversity…

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SHORT SENTENCES

"Short Sentences" is the title of a 1932 play by Gertrude Stein, which consists of almost 600 sentences, most of which are around five words long. They...

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A SHIFT IN PERCEPTION

"A Shift in Perception" is an experimental documentary portrait of three older blind women in Australia, Leander, Edna, and Rhonda. The soundtrack...

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SEVEN ANIMATIONS (DVD)

Dennis H. Miller's superb animated videos utilize the technology of computer-based 3D animation software to create abstract compositions which thrill the...

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DISCONNECTED

Grace Carter is seen here as a generic teenage girl waiting by the phone for her boyfriend to call. The soundtrack is a looped, distorted pastiche of...

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LAY DOWN TRACKS

This experimental documentary interweaves the stories of six people whose lives keep them constantly on the road. Bill Crowley, a retired worker from the...

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THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH

In a brief prologue, we hear a narrative fable, a kind of mythical generative story for the film. The story concerns a man who is obsessed with seeing...

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THE GEOSOPHIST’S TEARS

This video is a sumptuous celebration of the (to the East Coast eye) astonishing landscape of the American West. The video opens with a shot of an antique...

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ODYSSEUS IN ITHACA

This video is a portrait of an empty circular parking garage. The footage is shown from the point of view of the side of a car, winding it's way down six...

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SHOGUN ASSASSIN 2: LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH (DVD)

"Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death" (one of about eight titles this film has gone under) suffers from some of the same problems as the first...

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OMEN

This odd, affecting film shows a series of visual and sound textures which veer between abstraction and the concrete. Many sequences show a lone figure in...

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