Not exact matches
Four years later the organization was printing and selling books,
films,
manuals and other source material to pregnant women wanting more information about pregnancy and the birthing
process.
She initially proffers a fastidious, Melvillian crime picture with special attention given to
manual processes rather than human drama, but then elegantly pulls the focus back (with the help of a very subtle twist) in the second half to reveal that the caper at the
film's centre was only included for context.
First up: Harry Smith «s Heaven and Earth Magick (1962), a surreal collage
film composed from Victorian - era catalogues and exercise
manuals that Smith produced over a period of five years using a randomizing selection
process called sortilege, inspired by the Surrealist practice of automatic writing.
The destructive use of color or acid, the scratching and puncturing of the
film strip: these
manual modifications manifest themselves in a variety of reflections and distortions that, through the
process of projection, generate pictorial shapes.