Dallas Texas After the Goldrush

Wyborny trained as a mathematician worked as a cameraman on Werner Herzogs Kasper Hauser He first attracted the attention of the New York and London avantgardes for his elliptical narratives Dallas Texas After The Gold Rush 1971 and The Birth of a Nation 1973 Their plots collapsed by the optical transformation and repetition of individual shots move from anecdotal narrative to an examination of narrative construction itself His method was analogous in a way to that of novelists like RobbeGrillet eg Jealousy though Wyborny was far more interested in the actual materials of film than were the french new novelists when they turned to cinema His work was further characterised by a romantic appreciation for desolate ruined vistas J Hoberman