A film parade--icing of many basic varieties flittering colorfully between a seated figure and the open air in front of the screen.

All of that’s “in” the film and then there’s another layer of activity “on” the film, or actually “on” the screen itself, or really “in” the beam delivering the film, so “in front of” the film, though all of these layers really end up in the same place. It’s the playing out of a cartoony joke.. a giant woman’s hat in front of you in the movie theater. But beyond the joke what it really does—reactivate that unwanted space between the surface of our eyes and the looking-glass movie world. Between a sculpture & a film.

We can see that film is control.. and here the tentative head twists and nods of the hat wearers and awkward shadows are the impromptu living on-screen stars of the moment.
Film into theater. The dusty beam hitting the dark fabric make you want to thicken up all the spaces that we so effectively collapse. And in these clearheaded times, to invoke the beauties of “clutter” is more than welcome. A silent version of someone chattering during a movie. We “shhh,” but really we know that any chatter is momentarily protecting us from losing our selves. In this film the chatter is built in—highly decorated, scaffolding atop the viewers’ heads. Flapping flags celebrating the real world and invoking the most eccentric filmmakers of the past, who generously piled fantastic layers between us and them.

Jay Sanders

July 2007, at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, "Genesis I'm Sorry"

With ZORICA VASIC Music MATT SMITH Cinematography IRIS NG Hair BRAD PERRY Make Up MARGOT KEITH Costume ANTHONY HILL assistance BOJANA STANCIC, ALEX WOLFSON 2nd AC STUART FARNDELL Stills PRODUZENTIN