Serial Metaphysics
Serial Metaphysics is a 1972 collage film by experimental filmmaker Wheeler Winston Dixon.[1][2]
Summary[edit]
An examination of the American lifestyle recut entirely from existing television commercials creating "a vision of the world as viewed through the eyes of the corporate sponsor with a target audience in mind".[3][4][5][6]
Ed Halter from The Village Voice stated that Wheeler's "loopy Americana remix grooves to an increasingly trippy reverb."[7][8]
Production[edit]
The film was edited down all in one night on New Year's Eve from the 72 hours of TV commercials.[3]
Reception[edit]
The Whitney Museum of American Art[9] showed the film (twice in 1973 and 1974) where then-curator Bruce Rubin commented that Wheeler "is a masterful film editor. His sensitivity to the movement within the frame and of the camera itself allows for fluidity in his editing that is exuberant and refreshing. It is as though his films tap into our collective unconscious by exploring the surface realities that permeate our lives."
References[edit]
- ^ "Every Frame was Precious": An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon on JSTOR
- ^ Rare Chance for New Yorkers to See the Films of Wheeler Winston Dixon - Film International
- ^ a b First Fruits of Inspiration: The Films of Wheeler Winston Dixon - Film International
- ^ Wheeler Winston Dixon: From Ancient History to A Hundred Years from Today|LA Filmfourm
- ^ Wheeler Winston Dixon|MoMA
- ^ Visions of the Apocalypse - Google Books (pg.50)
- ^ Community, Loss and Regeneration: An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon - Senses of Cinema
- ^ Radical Cheek - The Village Voice
- ^ The Exploding Eye - Google Books (pg.53)
See also[edit]
- Criticism of capitalism
- A Corny Concerto - audio from the 1943 animated short can be heard in the film
- Gustav Holst's The Planets and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 can also be heard in the film