Emmas Dilemma (2012)

Henry Hillss Emmas Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction In a set of tourdeforce probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman Ken Jacobs and Carolee Schneemann Hillss cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out In this epic journey into the picaresque we follow Emma Bee Bernstein our intrepid protagonist from her preteen innocence to her late teenattitude as she learns about the downtown art scene firsthand In the process Hills reimagines the art of video in a style that achieves the density complexity and visual richness of his greatest films