Roll Film (1990)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

Llong rolls of paper filled with continuous abstract drawings across which the camera continually pans. In this film you are reading these images as you would words, yet the meaning of these sentences are abstracted. This film is about process, yet an artifact exists: the paper roll. You come away with a sense that the paper rolls exist outside the film as sculpture in their own right and in turn are a manifestation, a reference back to an actual strip of film, unprojected.

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