3rd Degree (1982)

Threescreen film On the first screen closeups of an agitated match in front of a young womans fearful face On the soundtrack matches warnings of a rattlesnake the phrase Listen I will not speak The ribbon runs at variable speeds sometimes blurring sometimes slowing down to stop on which the image celluloid begins to fry and to burn then leaves runs stops again leaves again On the second screen we see the first rephotographed here the burns are both fixed or new a burn in the second degree On the third screen we see the second screen rephotographed The subject of the film is the fragility of the film as medium as well as the vulnerability of man Both the film and the figure resist threats intimidation mutilations