Altered To Suit

Lawrence Weiner

1979, 23 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video

"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anchors the displacement of (filmic) reality and the alienation of the (players) self. Devices such as incongruity between the image and the soundtrack, odd camera angles, and plays on objective focus are integral and explicit components of the narrative... It is shot in black and white with very sensual, very seductive photography." - Alice Weiner

Inherent in the Rhumb Line

Lawrence Weiner

2005, 7:25 min, color, silent

Inherent in the Rhumb Line is a silent motion drawing. "With the advent of the rhumb line — a line of constant bearing or loxodrome — a cognitive pattern developed in the Western world that allowed the possibility to conceive pillage on voyages of discovery. Inherent in the Rhumb Line is an imperative for use — regardless of consequence — a flattened convolution that marries landscape with loot and preordination."

Turning Some Pages

Lawrence Weiner

2007, 5 min, color, sound

Turning Some Pages was produced in conjunction with the printing of a limited edition journal of the same name by the Howard Smith Paper Group, a British paper merchant. The action of reading a book informs the structure of this digital motion drawing, in which abstract arrangements of graphic shapes and images of dice are interspersed with cryptic aphorisms.