Metronome (1998)

METRONOME is both the most straightforward as well as the most difficult of Stephanie Barbers films It is very dear to the filmmakers heart The soundtrack of a radio play is offset by the intractable images of spaces The former seems to balance precariously between kitsch and true heartrending emotion and the latter references the asceticism of seventies minimalism in experimental film with the impenetrable intellectualism becoming increasingly moving as the film progresses The marriage of these two elements is an odd tension the tale of the play the threat of limb extraction asks the necessity of whole and what the elements are which compose complete