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Split Decision (1979)

Split Decision (1979)

Drama Animation
Release Date: 1979, January 1
Directors: Bill Brand
Countries: United States of America
Production: New York State Council on the Arts, Millennium Film Workshop, The Committee on Visual Arts
Cast: Nicky Paraiso, Helen Prischepenko, Jack Shapira, Brett Sussler, Bruce Bixler, Felix Kutlik, Carmen Vigil, Louis Laudfield, Edward Dunphy

Overview:

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.