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Split Decision (1979)
Directed by Bill Brand
Drama, Animation · 15m
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.
Cast
Carolee Schneemann
Bill Brand
Betzy Bromberg
Crew
- Director
- Bill Brand
- Producer
- Lauren Abrams, Mike Dooley, Barbara Mayfield, Gloria Norris, Bruce Bixler
Details
- Release date
- 1979-01-01
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- New York State Council on the Arts, Millennium Film Workshop, The Committee on Visual Arts