The Arc

Tregenzas second feature takes the form of a highly metaphorical road movie as the isolated protagonist Jason Adams drifts from gainful employment in the East as an arc welder in Baltimore to a spiritual apotheosis in the West The formal treatment of the material ranges from rapid montage in the opening sequence to more conventional editing to lengthy takes without any apparent consistent pattern Tregenza remains a master cinematographer throughout and the various ellipses between sequences are often as provocative as the sequences themselves Jonathan Rosenbaum