The Red Thread

Overview

Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed (using the camera almost as a p[r/a]inter, a means of shaping the visual world as film, but without reflection) in response to what that world was opening in me. ""Material!"" - analogies between weaving and spinning thread and images already a pattern within film history (e.g., in Deren) is here carried into further ramifications of unraveling and patterning in fabric- and cinema-making, as well as in personal and mythic dimensions. The open unfolding structure, which pulls away from the balanced design of much of my work, gives equal weight to the sound composition. Involves ""opening"" with its perils and ambiguities.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 6, 1987

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

Larry Gottheim

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt7006422