Silent Partner

In effect it turns the spectator loose in a problematic textual system which includes both narrative and nonnarrative clues the puzzle cannot be resolved because its terms are systematically ambiguous The actual filmic material related closely to that used by Gidal in previous films handheld shooting in domestic interiors with tight framing frequent zooms and refocusing aspires to a kind of prepredicative flux in which full representation is held in abeyance However this material is now fragmented by the regular interruption of black leader so that it appears as a series of discrete segments which are not in any syntactic sense shots single takes clearly extend across more than one segment