Landfall

Landfall was shot in Prince Edward Island near the family home on the Northumberland Strait The original footage shot in 1974 was a kind of interactive camera dance with the environment Poetry became important when the footage was later superimposed onto its own mirrorimage to help direct the viewer away from the luring yet limited world of imageidentification I Thought There Were Limits by Quebec poet DG Jones w as used to encourage the viewer to reject Newtonian notions of space and time and to conceptualize the films interplay between absence desire and presence Eventually the limitation of text as spoken signifier is exposed through dynamic visual techniques reminiscent of concrete poetry RH