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Released
1978 · FILM

Foregrounds

Directed by
Runtime
13 min
Short

Synopsis

FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints features a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cézanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O'Neill begins to animate "scratches" over the image, one's eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume. — J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

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