Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 17th, 1989
Original Language:English
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SiteRecite a prologue (1989)
4 minJan 17th, 1989
With startling precision SiteRecite moves across and around a tabletop graveyard bones butterfly wings egg shells seed pods crumpled notes skulls in a series of seamless edits that present a continuous flow of detailed closeups This taxonomy of dispossession little deaths that pile up is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic selfconsciousness and visual experience Through the window of this text the objects on the table come to model how consciousness affixes itself to material manifestations and how memory is constituted by the collection of empty vessels SiteRecite is a prologue for Which Tree an interactive videodisc installation that presents viewers with a maze of interconnected branch points allowing them to wander through its forest of images and words to discover the texts of their own thinking patterns
DirectorGary Hill
