Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film context-so that it becomes sufficient to let the camera run in the barren studio set. This discourages work on the images themselves. The structure of a frame composition used to have some meaning in Hollywood. Nowadays shots refer to objects and people without conferring order on their spatial relations. That's unacceptable even to good documentarists. In the words of one of the best, Joris Ivens: "The theatre screen is not a window through which you look at the world, it is a world in itself...
...look at my work," says Biederman, now 63, "and you don't see technology." What you do see is a perfect balance of angles, colors, shadows and reflections that provide the dynamics for a rich visual experience. They plainly owe their geometry to Mondrian, their spatial dimensionality to the Russian constructivists, their crisp colors to the De Stijl movement. But by logically extending the discoveries of his predecessors, Biederman has created an art form of his own, with tools unique to his own time...
...Aleph, omniscience takes the form of a small spot of light where everything going on in the world can be seen simultaneously from every angle. And in an imaginative murder mystery called The Garden of Forking Paths, time is envisioned as a complex network of planes on which spatial events may occur independently of one another-unless, of course, the planes happen to intersect accidentally...