Analogies

Director: Peter Rose
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Length: 77 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Colour
Certificate: E

Synopsis

"One of the characteristics of Peter Rose's work is to scrutinize the ability of cinema and video to create inherent and often paradoxical meanings without necessarily resorting to narration. Whichever the chosen medium (video, computer, film, performance, etc.), his work jeopardizes the idea of communication by upsetting the different systems set up for each film or video. Through the proliferation, repetition, multiplication of segmentation of images, texts, speech or alphabets, he explodes our capacity to produce a unique meaning." – Yann Beauvais

"Throughout the period during which Incantation, Analogies, and The Man Who… were being made, I saw language as a kind of enemy of image, as an occupying entity that converted all experience into a digestible, exchangeable commodity. So my initial forays were subversive in intention, aimed at destabilizing the whole business so as to leave the field clear for seeing. But I discovered that there was structure, too, in language (if you got beyond denotation) and that you could build things with it, systems that were mathematical and format in nature and which thereby related to what I was doing with images. This conjunction might have something to do with the lateralization of the brain and the presence of a nexus between formal and linguistic thinking." – Peter Rose