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Split Decision

100% | Jan 01, 1979
Drama Animation

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.

Featured Crew

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Pamela Yates
Assistant Camera
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Mike Penland
Sound Recordist
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Felix Kutlik
Lighting Technician
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Barbara Mayfield
Producer
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Lauren Abrams
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Bruce Bixler
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Mike Dooley
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Tom Siegel
Camera Operator
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Ruth Hardinger
Still Photographer
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Kathleen King
Assistant Director
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Bill Brand
Director
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Helene Kaplan
Sound Recordist

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