Absence of Satan

A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car door cut with a helicopter takes place Absence of Satan is probably one of George Barbers best Scratch works and is a deft reworking of cinematic narrative and cliché George Barber is one of the pioneers of Scratch Video which emerged in the UK during the mid1980s Scratch video makes use of found images from films and television cutting seemingly incongruous imagery together to make a new meaning it has been compared to the recordscratching techniques of hiphop music hence the name luxorguk