Split Decision

15 mins
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.

Bill Brand

Director

Kathleen King

Assistant Director

Tom Siegel

Camera Operator

Pamela Yates

Assistant Camera

Helene Kaplan

Sound Recordist

Mike Penland

Sound Recordist

Felix Kutlik

Lighting Technician

Mike Dooley

Producer

Bruce Bixler

Producer

Ruth Hardinger

Still Photographer

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