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Shards · 1988

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Dana Plays · 4 min

Lightly processed field recordings fuse disparate strips of saturated 16mm film into an observational diary. The silhouette of a lizard crawling, a sugarcane harvest, American Indian gatherings, a fatherly barbecue and other outdoor scenes draw unexpected corollaries, limning film's possibilities as a momentary medium not bound to a monolithic narrative.

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