The October Tapes [of which Before Letting Go is part] are quite a ride. These tapes are painfully funny, extremely angry, and intoxicating in their spins through a strangely beautiful landscape revealed by camcorder, the artist’s perceptual instrument of choice. Sherman is known for his direct video style--short on effects and transitional grammar, long on content. His video recordings are proof that the concrete memory of video is an immediate, rough and tumble terrain worthy of our unfiltered, rapt attention. You see for yourself. Sherman’s video is simply nothing like film.
This film screens as part of this screening:
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- STEM Cell 2010 / Reeling Dance On Screen
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1: Variations on the Home Movie
- Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck) (2010)
- Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque
- Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (2008)
- Artist's Talk with Daniel Barrow @ The ARTery
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 2: Landscapes
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 3: The Medium of Media
- Reeling: Blush - A film by Ultima Vez (2004)
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory
- Reeling: Gravity of Desire
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 5: Phenomenology & Perception
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