FILM

A fascinating, disjunctive conundrum of language, image and sound, whose covert syntax refuses to be unpicked. A quote by filmmaker Hollis Frampton might be appropriate here: “It is as though the formation of the meaningful had some ultimate chemical origin, ‘parts of speech’ combine into propositional molecules through electrovalent attraction, or, where that attraction is lacking, remain in solution as free radicals. If art has had a scientific mission, we find it in the exposure of such mechanisms, in a nonlinear display of the OCCASIONS of meaning. For meaning is not, for image or word, in things; it is in people”.