Close Reading1

'The edits cut fast and directly from hand to foot to knee, to a lock of hair, creating a 'cinematic body' of moving fragments that relate to an unseen whole: a new kind of body existing only in cinema.'
Amy Greenfield



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Shooting Footnotes:
Filming again at Lakeview on March 6th, and attempting to compose a synthesis of individual body parts. The quotation above is from Amy Greenfield's writing on Hilary Harris's film Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (1966), and describes a territory I am aiming to explore. Performers are mostly Isobel Cohen, with my arm in the top right hand corner.