In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches operatic fragments of Wladimir Vogel’s Wagadu, as the camera studies a middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping, and meeting a young girl. The filmmaker told himself, ‘Don’t let yourself know what that film is about while you are making it.’ (P. Adams Sitney, Film Comment).
DirectorRobert Beavers
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Includes: Winged Dialogue, Plan of Brussels, The Count of Days, Palinode, Diminished Frame, Still Light, The Painting, From the Notebook of..., Work Done, Ruskin, Amor, Efpsychi, Wingseed, The Stoas, Sotiros, The Ground, The Hedge Theater, Early Monthly Segments
