Until that time she was best known for
her wordscapes or still films, densely verbal descriptions of entire films.
Work can be presented in drawings /
wordscapes, print, digital, installation, performance, sound or mixed media formats with photographic documentation.
Best known for making hand - written and printed text «
wordscapes» or «still films», that retell in her own words entire feature films or sequences of events, Banner's 1998 Break Point is based on the chase scene in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Point Break (1991).
Banner came to prominence in the 1990s with
her wordscapes, written transcriptions of iconic films retold in her own words.
Faced with works of art made from - seemingly plastic blow - up dolls, a bisected cow, elephant dung, an unmade bed with used - tampax, a hand - written «
wordscape» describing an erotic film - these sceptics ask, «is this really art?»