For Joe (1996)

American experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz here pays tribute to Joe of Swiss Camera a friend who repaired all of his Bolex 16mm cameras A collage of images and sounds playfully portraying the technical process of capturing and displaying film Schlemowitz is perhaps sardonically directing his camera upon us the audience Simultaneously a portrait of precision and a celebration of the coarseness of film itself FOR JOE evokes the rhythms and spectacle of capturing image in an earlier era of filmmaking Stela Jelincic