( ) (film)

2003 film by Morgan Fisher March 2025 January 2025 Morgan Fisher Morgan Fisher Morgan Fisher Morgan Fisher 2003 10 18 US 21 minutes United States Silent ( ) is a 2003 silent film directed by Morgan Fisher. Summary The film consists entirely of insert shots extracted from feature films, considering the "status of the insert shot in an ingenious way", according to film expert Susan Oxtoby. http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2004/filmsschedules/description.asp?pageID=wavelengths&id=1 Bell - The Toronto International Film Festival 2006-12-07 Toronto International Film Festival Group https://web.archive.org/web/20041010073119/http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2004/filmsschedules/description.asp?pageID=wavelengths&id=1 2004-10-10 Fisher said of his film, "Inserts are above all instrumental. They have a job to do, and they do it; and they do little, if anything, else. Sometimes inserts are remarkably beautiful, but this beauty is usually hard to see because the only thing that registers is the news, the expository information, that the insert conveys... By chance, I learned that the root of 'parenthesis' is a Greek word that means the act of inserting. And so I was given the title of the film." http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/avantgarde2003mf.htm ( ) by morgan fisher 2006-12-07 The New York Film Festival https://web.archive.org/web/20070302202305/http://filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/avantgarde2003mf.htm 2 March 2007 Synopsis P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University, wrote a short essay for Artforum International "Medium Shots: the films of Morgan Fisher" in which he describes the film "( )." "Fisher's most recent film, ( ), succeeds astonishingly where Frampton's parallel effort, Hapax Legomena: Remote Control (1972) failed; it uses aleatory methods to release the narrative unconscious of a set of randomly selected films. ( ) is made up entirely of "inserts" from feature films organized according to Oulipian principles. Inserts were usually shot by assistants when star actors, large crews, or expensive sets were not needed. These include details of weapons, wounds, letters, signs, tombstones, machinery, games of chance, timepieces, money, and even intimate caresses. Fisher culled the inserts from a number of films he collected for that purpose and edited them together under constraints he does not fully reveal; he places the inserts from a given film in the order in which they appeared in that film, but two inserts from the same film never follow each other directly in his assemblage. Alternating among them we catch glimpses of violence, intrigue, high-stakes gambling, and sexual adventure."MEDIUM SHOTS: THE FILMS OF MORGAN FISHER - Artfourm International Screening ( ) was screened on October 18, 2003, during the New York Film Festival, http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/avantgarde2003.htm The Seventh Annual Views from the Avant-garde 2006-12-07 The New York Film Festival https://web.archive.org/web/20061020122101/http://filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/avantgarde2003.htm 20 October 2006 and on September 13, 2004, at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Wavelengths programming. http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/avantgarde2003.htm TIFF Screening Schedule 2006-12-07 Toronto International Film Festival Group https://web.archive.org/web/20061208003809/http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2004/filmsschedules/sched.asp?id=13 2006-12-08 References External links Category:2003 films Category:2003 American films Category:2003 black-and-white films Category:2003 independent films Category:2003 short films Category:2000s avant-garde and experimental films Category:American avant-garde and experimental short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American collage films Category:American independent films Category:American silent short films