Incidence of Catastrophe

5/5/1988Released

5/5/1988Physical
"Collected Video Essays" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Incidence of Catastrophe(1988)

Rated 44 min.

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.

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OriginUnited States of America

Languagesen

CompaniesElectronic Arts Intermix

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