Outerborough

A ten-minute film by Bill Morrison, using Across Brooklyn Bridge (1899). The lit says that’s what Morrison does, take old footage and goof around with it. This time he uses a split screen, with the film running forward on the left and backward on the right. (The film simply shoots the view from the front of the car as the bridge train crosses the bridge.) Then he makes the film go faster! Wow! According to the lit, “the director engages the viewer . . . via subtle visual trickery.” Yeah, trickery all right.

Saw it Sunday Jan. 16, 2005 at 2p at the MoMA.