Cheap Imitations Part VVI Terms of Analysis (1982)

Initially the subject of this film was the multiple threats constantly implicit in cinema especially in the perceptual acts of unifying with which we respond to the discontinuities of editing So the basic images were knives and salamis But as the music was reworked highly charged objects began to appear and reappear instinctual navigation took over as always in the editing room and the film seemed to adopt another subject entirely As in all our work many issues are in uneasy balance and the film refuses to find a center Words in the film refer to its own intertextuality Who is speaking here And who is addressed