Gary Hill
Director
In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more, making the video something of a “transcreation.” The “reader” begins in the liquidity of the text almost as if he were waking from drowning. Images of the sea ravishing the shore – small cliffs of sand eroding and collapsing – are inter-cut with extreme close-ups of text and the texture of the page and book itself being flooded with ocean waves. In scene after scene the reader attempts to re-enter the book only to find himself a part of intense dreams and hallucinations.
Homepage | http://garyhill.com/work/video/incidence-of-catastrophe.html |
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Release Date | 1988-05-05 |
Runtime | 44m |
Director | Gary Hill |
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Writer | Gary Hill |