Doubt
16mm film, 18 minutes, 1997 (additional image 1)
This triptych film addresses the history of avant guard filmmaking and the evolution of its conventions from montage and city-scape to trance and formalism. The first of the three parts, found footage, bookends this film as it explores the theme of creation and the role of the artist as creator. Dancer Robert Moore plays the role of the somnambulist explorer, a confused scientist troubled by his own divided consciousness. Gerald Saul addresses the audience's inability to interpret his own film in a comical self reflexive monologue overtop hand-processed and bleached footage of a city more dead than alive.
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The project and process are discussed in detail within my MFA thesis paper (1996).
