Drawing Houses (1982)

Drawing Houses consists of two parts In each part performers make drawings of houses The first part is filmed at a high angle looking down at a floor The scene opens with a closeup of the back of a Hawaiian shirt The Hawaiian shirt wearer moves out and a performer enters and begins to draw on the floor A drawing of a house is made on the floor The drawing is made so that it appears to be on the plane of the projected image and not on the receding floor plane In the second part of the film the camera is placed so that the scene is viewed straight on This scene opens with a black line grid on the screen A large facial profile appears when the perfomer removes some paper that covers it He draws in the facial details The performer then draws a line drawing of a house This drawing looks similiar to the one from the earlier scene Another house is drawn in the background However parts of each house are drawn on different planes