City Symphony Volume 1

Streaming video - 1990

Includes two films: Continuum and Deconstruction Sight.. "This is history without narrative, an abstract summation of what happens when human beings move stuff around and make something of it, grow tired of what they've made and demolish it using other things they've made, and then start all over again. What we build, what we destroy, what we find useful to do both, how we let our interaction with them describe what we call human - these are some of the ideas Angerame's Deconstruction Sight suggests.". . From an essay by Barbara Jaspersen Voorhees, 1990. . "...the images of Continuum certainly haunt me: there was the softest continual casualness of editing (beseeming "casualness", I should say; for I ...certainly DO know how difficult this is to accomplish), and a steadiness-of rhythm, always moving/moving but never as anything ominous to me, or inexorable something more like very heavy water lapping. Then the blacks and whites, evolving from some gray "cloud" into the stark sharp glistens of "stars" in the deep black of "tar" for the "tar" too seemed more night that what you'd photographed. It was amazing to me how little evidence there was in the film of the Time in which it was made, or even the location: I found myself tending to forget that these were City-chores, that this was rooftop work, so forth: just the labor, the continuity of labor, timeless, and ongoing, without inexorable. Bravo.". . Stan Brakhage. . more