At times the grid is a means of tracing movement, a tool for documenting the passage of time and arranging visual texts and compositions. (otis.edu)
The Word on the Street series facilitates the creation and presentation of poetic banners by acclaimed writers and visual artists who, through the public use of visual text, can speak directly to the urgent, timeless concerns of the individual, the community, and citizenship. (socratessculpturepark.org)
So the probability arises that Mamet wishes his films to be seen as a kind of populist avant - garde cinema, full of ideas about the role of language in visual text and in the interim disdaining the menial task of telling a story that has some semblance of respect for internal coherence. (filmfreakcentral.net)