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These Here Separated to See How They Standing Alone
Poetry. Film Studies. Multimedia. Book + DVD. This book and DVD by Stephanie Barber, the critically acclaimed experimental filmmaker, asks what happens when the words that are spoken in her moving pictures are separated to stand by themselves. The book includes the soundtracks to six of her films, which are included on a DVD. In this set are her groundbreaking and widely s...more
Paperback, 56 pages
Published
May 2010
by Publishing Genius Press
(first published April 22nd 2008)
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This is a pretty little book with the text of her films and videos printed and a disc of the pieces too! She's a genius and it's nice to be able to own something of hers and be able to watch it again and again and think about her perfect word choices. I got it because I know her films which you can only see here and there (I'm in New York) and, because her work is so sort of delicate and complicated at the same time, it really helps to watch them more than once and to have the writing separate i...more
Apr 21, 2008
Adam
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fans of experimental film
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OK, so my small press published this book and that might skew my rating a bit -- but I think what Barber has done here is really valuable. The DVD includes six of her films/videos, all stunning work and critically acclaimed (and shown at places like MoMA, New York Film Festival, Anthologies Film Archive) and in the book are the soundtracks, or the text, of what's spoken in the films.
The reason it works is because a film like catalog is so dense that it's impossible to really gleen every chunk o...more
The reason it works is because a film like catalog is so dense that it's impossible to really gleen every chunk o...more
Since I bought this a few weeks ago I've already read/watched it six or eleven times. Many pieces are dense and intricate yet at the same time hilarious. One is a play about sex in which the characters are insects; another is a catalog of photos reenacted on screen by actors.
I also recommend her magical essay on lawn poems - which is free for viewing online! - to anyone interested in her work.
I also recommend her magical essay on lawn poems - which is free for viewing online! - to anyone interested in her work.
Was at her reading at UBalt, very nicely done!
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