Slow Motion (1969)

Made for Art by Telephone an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 Morris simply dictated instructions for the making of the film Despite this conceptual origin it is also an essentially cinematic performance exploiting slow motion tight framing and an implicit analogy between the transparent glass door against which the figure pushes and the screen or image surface The repetitions and variations the use of gesture weight and force give the performance a dancelike gravity