Great Society Screening next week!

[Aaron Gerow]

Great Society is an event in the real meaning of the term: it is a 
temporally unique experience that cannot be duplicated, even if you 
happen to see it again. Six 16mm projectors just do not run at the same 
speed, so over the 17 minutes, they tend to get slightly out of sync. 
"Ideally" the work is best when the projectors match to create a large 
American flag over the 6 screens towards the end, but that ideal is not 
only hard to achieve, it is in some ways not the point. It is these 
unique combinations of images--different each time--that not only 
communicate the singular liveness of this cinematic experience, but 
also tell of the jumbled collage that is more real than pretensions of 
a unified "great society."

Aaron Gerow
Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
53 Wall Street, Room 316
PO Box 208363
New Haven, CT 06520-8363
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6764
e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu