Letters Notes (2000)

Conceptually Stephanie Barbers short film LETTERS NOTES is simplicity itself found photographs hold the screen as animated texts transcribe brief notes and letters unmoored from context And yet the elusive poignancy that emerges of this exquisite corpse structure is richly suggestive of the roots of narrative If a code is a reduced version of lang as one of the more enigmatic notes reads then Barbers film might be said to explore the possibilities of decoding specifically how cinema makes it possible to rewrite sounds and images as emotions LETTERS NOTES is another remarkable selection from the Cinemad Almanac