Frozen Flight

Bruce Wood in the few short years he has been working in film has produced an amazing body of work He is practically alone in a genre black and white silent abstractions which has its antecedents in the likes of Eggeling Richter and Leger What I find most interesting in his work amid the concern with textures shape and space is his ability to produce works of even tension Doing away with concepts of beginning middle and end he presents a broad landscape piece by piece until he has exhausted the source of his subject matter and the whole scene lies there naked and revealed Carmen Vigil Director The Cinematheque San Francisco Art Institute