| Craft/Things Get in a Muddle/Unseen Cloud Moving |
| Genre: | Unclassified |
| Rating: | ? |
Craft:
Direct, irreverent, and infused with an ironic eroticism, Cheryl Donegan's works are exercises in masquerade and exposure. In CRAFT, Donegan eats her way layer by ironic layer through a white bread and American cheese sandwich, shaping hearts, stars, faces, an bunnies as she goes. Using close-ups and accompanied by an aggressive rock 'n roll soundtrack, she probes the auto eroticism inherent in the production and consumption of art in contemporary America.
Directed by Cheryl Donegan
Why Do Things Get In A Muddle?
Hill's empirical inquiry into Gregory Bateson's concept of metalogue - "a conversation about problems between people [that] mirrors the problems themselves" - employs a brilliant methodology to explore relationships between the direction of time and the order of things. A conversation between Alice in Wonderland and her father about "muddle" is constructed through the elaborate technique of reversing the characters' lines, which were originally performed backwards.
Directed by Gary Hill
with Kathy Hill, Charles Stein (color)
There Was An Unseen Cloud Moving:
This experimental work presents a fragmented biography of the 19th-century traveler and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash flood in the desert. The tape makes no claim to tell the "truth" about Isabelle, picking up rumors of her tyrannical, nihilistic father and her flight to Algeria where she dressed as a man. Following Eberhardt's travels and the strangely syncretic vision of her father, Thornton gives a portrait of cultural cross-breeding in which "neither this world nor the other remains."
Directed by Leslie Thornton
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