The Conversation

The Conversation

Production country: 
us
Year: 
1996
Duration: 
12'
Edition: 
1997
Format: 
film/video

It is unmistakably an Ortiz: exceedingly minimalist in its use of images - exceedingly excessive in their arrangement. Two short sequences are all he needs to build up extreme tension: two men involved in a battle of words, and a woman screaming. Through the perfect, computerised editing of the pictures and sound, which are "scratched" at breakneck speed, an immense range of different emotions and of possible references between the figures, their language, screams and movements evolves from these seemingly so trivial film sequences.

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