Kisses

Betty Fergusons Kisses an hourlong anthology of film clips presented without titles or voiceover is the sweetest and in avantgarde terms the most conventional film on the program Although the kiss reached its supreme expression as the onscreen replacement for copulation in postCode Hollywood Fergusons material is drawn largely from silent classics and the lessfetishized European cinema of around 1960 She compares her film to a patchwork quilt but its basically morphological cataloguing clusters of shots where kisses are delivered to the hand the neck rained down on a beloved face perfunctorily bestowed on a spouse awarded to dogs dolls gun etc J Hoberman Village Voice