The Morse Code Operator or The Monkey Wrench

One of two new digital works in the allGehr program Morse Code is not only clever its unexpectedly funny Having now spent several years exploring the possibilities of DV one senses that Gehr has attained a new level of comfort and flexibility with the new medium The Morse Code Operator is a glitchturntablist remix of a segment of Griffiths 1911 short The Lonedale Operator or more accurately of the National Film Preservation Foundations DVD of that film Theres something tentative about the piece but in an exploratory way as if Gehr were encountering home video as something deeply strange in the manner one might step outside and find an asteroid in the front yard