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Arbitrary Fragments

director: Barbara Aronofsky Latham

original title: Arbitrary Fragments

country: United States

year: 1978

running time: 13 min.

synopsis

Polychromatic facial planes, the glass eyes of the camera lenses, and fragmented thoughts all flash across the frame in this experimental film. Among the random fragments of multiple reality lies the dissected face of the medium, which stands between the sender and the recipient. Between two closed worlds, a web of meanings, relationships, and interactions develops, in which we try to cross paths with others, as well as ourselves.

biography

American video artist Barbara Aronofsky Latham (1947–1984) explored issues of politics, feminism, and identity throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan named their award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist after her. Among Latham’s most noted works include AlienNATION (1979), Chained Reactions (1982), and Consuming Passions (1983).