Split Decision (1979)

Split Decision

1979

Drama Animation

Synopsis

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.

Credits

Director

Bill Brand

Cast

Bill Brand as Bar Crowd

Brett Sussler as Chic Woman

Bruce Bixler as Bar Crowd

Carolee Schneemann as Tracy

Helen Prischepenko as Ann

Jack Shapira as Bartender

Kevin Coleman as Sam

Lauren Abrams as Bar Crowd