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Incidence of Catastrophe (1988)
Directed by Gary Hill
· 44m
In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more, making the video something of a “transcreation.” The “reader” begins in the liquidity of the text almost as if he were waking from drowning. Images of the sea ravishing the shore – small cliffs of sand eroding and collapsing – are inter-cut with extreme close-ups of text and the texture of the page and book itself being flooded with ocean waves. In scene after scene the reader attempts to re-enter the book only to find himself a part of intense dreams and hallucinations.
Crew
- Director
- Gary Hill
- Writer
- Gary Hill
- Editor
- Gary Hill
Details
- Release date
- 1988-05-05
- Runtime
- 44m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Electronic Arts Intermix