Script

Script

John Baldessari 
1974, 50:25 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video

John Baldessari introduces Script at EAI on Saturday, November 20, 2010.

Script is the opposite of an improvisational exercise. Seven couples, all amateurs, are handed pages from random movie scripts and instructed to enact the absurd text through force of imagination, without direction or knowledge of what the others are doing.

Thanks to: Jill Ciment, Ilene Segalove, Terry Tomberlin, Kim Hastreiter, Dede Bazyk, Star Marks, Susan Davis, Arnold Mesches, David Salle, Jim Welling, James Robertson, Michael Marks, Steve Galloway.

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