Amy Halpern Series / on 16mm!

A stunningly sensual, life-affirming experience from a major experimental film artist that is open to a myriad of meanings. The film is a rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while individuals express a range of emotions they remain ultimately enigmas. The glimpses of life going on around all these faces have an unsettling, even apocalyptic quality, and the film forces you to consider living beings and their value collectively rather than selectively.

(Amy Halpern, USA, English, 64min, 1992, 16mm)

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres