You Never Worry
- Gregg Biermann |
- 1993 |
- 20 minutes |
- B&W |
- OPT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
A piece that begins much like my earlier film MONTAGE but unlike that film takes several surprising turns which seem to break the film's consistency but actually point its overall structure. YOU NEVER WORRY operates in an arena where meaningfulness is anything but perfunctory. An attempt to break open the ivory tower of structuralist film ends up with a resounding short circuit - but this might not negate the work. Dissonances between areas of unrelated subject matter pervert the purity of formal concerns. It is almost as if the process and subjects are actually at odds with one another. What is interesting about the use of appropriated imagery here is that one is never sure how to view the material. The lack of the familiar ironic position leads to some disturbing places. Finally in all of this phenomena ... a strangely emotional personal overtone.