(Split Decision)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

Animation

Runtime:

15 minutes

Year:

1979

Directors:

Bill Brand

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Production companies:

New York State Council on the Arts,

Millennium Film Workshop,

The Committee on Visual Arts

Actors:

Tracy

Ching

Ann

Sam

Bartender

Crews:

Assistant Camera

Sound Recordist

Lighting Technician

Producer

Producer