FILM

“I consider Thom and Malcolm’s film to be groundbreaking in its brilliant demonstration of the power of a rule to construct a film that unifies shots taken at different times and places. And it also noteworthy for the new model of the documentary film that it proposes. In describing his film as a parody of montage, Thom is being too modest, if not deliberately misleading. The brilliance of --- ------ is that it refuses the power of montage as that idea has been conventionally understood, only to rediscover its power in a different form, on a new plane.” (MF)