Larry Gottheim
Fog Line
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Original format 16mm
Year 1970-1971
Artist(s) Larry Gottheim
Author(s) Larry Gottheim, Scott Macdonald
Booklet 60 pages (French, English)
Running time 87 min
Films
BLUES (1970) 8'
CORN (1970) 10'
FOG LINE (1970) 11'
DOORWAY (1971) 7'
HARMONICA (1971) 10'
THOUGHT (1971) 7'
BARN RUSHES (1971) 34'
Description
"Perfect works have a way of appearing discreet or simple, the complexities seeming so right that they flow—hypnotizing us through their form—a form that testifies to the harmony between many aesthetic concerns. Larry Gottheim's Doorway is a film of this kind. His concern with working the edges, isolating details, the prominence of the frame as both form and revealer of edges, the love of photographic texture—all of this is treated with lucidity in this film. One is drawn into these magnificent images by Gottheim's poetic sense of photographic qualities, his ability to transform a landscape through his rigorous use of the frame to isolate and draw attention to a previously hidden beauty, revealed by a highly selective eye."
— Barry Gerson, Film Culture