Terrace 49, 2004
16mm Film still
Terrace 49
2004
color, optical sound
5:37 minutes
Sound: Leon Rothenberg
Images of impending disaster--- slamming doors, a truck careening down a hill, and a frayed, almost snapping, elevator rope--- collide with the repeated image of a woman’s body, cycling toward ephemerality as the the woman disappears into the texture of the film itself. In my recent films, I have been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a lush, disorienting, ambiguous film space, and an atmosphere of temporal suspension. In Terrace 49, the space is shattered further, broken into shards; as fractured as memory and as fragile as glass.
