Leni Riefenstahl's representations of men and Busby Berkeley's representations of women are viewed from the 21st Century like ritualistic cave art, an incantation of power. A pre-lingual woman's voice, outside time, both laments things to come and things that have passed.
I had accidentally placed a PAL tape into an NTSC camera, and saw the results could be interesting to work with. When the selected footage was loaded into the camera, the computer crashed. Dragging the contents out of the computer's trash, an entirely different result became the material to work with.
The footage was filmed off the television.
The Music was done by SLIP and is also in part the result of a technological "mistake". I was in an improvisation group, and we came across a partially erased tape, holding only the vocal track of another project. We very much wanted to play with her again, so we recorded new tracks to her remaining vocals, in a sense "auditioning" her. We hoped that when she heard the recording she would want to be in our group. It worked!
Slip was;
John Blue
Chen Wei Liu
A.L.Dentel
Tim Blue
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