Site/Recite (a prologue)

Site/Recite (a prologue) 1989 Released

Directed by Gary Hill

· 4 min

 

Site/Recite (a prologue) 1989 Released

Directed by Gary Hill

· 4 min

 

With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled notes, skulls — in a series of seamless edits that present a continuous flow of detailed close-ups. This taxonomy of dispossession, "little deaths that pile up," is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic self-consciousness and visual experience. Through the window of this text, the objects on the... see more

With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled notes, skulls — in a series of seamless edits that present a continuous flow of detailed close-ups. This taxonomy of dispossession, "little deaths that pile up," is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic self-consciousness and visual experience. Through the window of this text, the objects on the... see more
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N/A min
RELEASED
Jan 17, 1989
COUNTRY
US
LANGUAGE
EN
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