The Red Thread (1987)

Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California material filmed using the camera almost as a prainter a means of shaping the visual world as film but without reflection in response to what that world was opening in me Material analogies between weaving and spinning thread and images already a pattern within film history eg in Deren is here carried into further ramifications of unraveling and patterning in fabric and cinemamaking as well as in personal and mythic dimensions The open unfolding structure which pulls away from the balanced design of much of my work gives equal weight to the sound composition Involves opening with its perils and ambiguities