Last Lost
A hypnotic parable about coming of age in a shifty world of slipping terms, "found" in the optically mesmerized fragments of a home market movie about a chimpanzee`s high adventures at Coney Island. A new story is rendered from the filmic vocabulary of the lighthearted original by moving in on background details, slowing down fleeting actions and shifting the psychology of the frame. Last Lost is a silent film in spirit, trying to speak without words, like some dreams.
(Eve Heller)
Discussing her phrase "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" (...) Gertrude Stein commented, "I think that in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years." Like Stein, Heller has the ability to give images a sense of absolute presence; literal meaning falls away as we are hypnotized by the momentum of cutting.
(Lesley Chow)
Last Lost
1996
USA
14 min