Air Raid (1974)

The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images found in the everyday a lawnmower the wrapping of fruit with tin foil a cement mixer record player television and among others the eerie image of an air raid siren A negative double of the image horizontally slides away every so often as if ruptured by the violence of the sound The last image shows a butterfly opening and closing its wings as if it were tuning the only silent segment of the work