Split Decision

Split Decision

10.0

Jan 01 1979

0h 15m

Drama, Animation

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.

Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann

Tracy

Nicky Paraiso

Nicky Paraiso

Ching

Helen Prischepenko

Helen Prischepenko

Ann

Kevin Coleman

Kevin Coleman

Sam