The Floor of the World
Janie Geiser
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9m 10s
Directed by Janie Geiser • Documentary • 2010 • 9 minutes
In a shifting landscape of dirt and sky, excavation and construction merge. Figures move back and forth between life and death, and possibly somewhere else. The ephemerality of existence is a mundane question in this world, where numbers mark the way. The floor of the world turns out to be easily pierced, liquid, permeable. Shot on 16mm; finished as digital video, from The Nervous Films series.
“Letters appear through a clearing of dirt, later removed by a paper shovel to uncover a black and white photograph of a girl. The earth opens up, then swallows back up, its many secrets." —Genevieve Yue, The Parallax View: On the Recent Films of Janie Geiser
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