SPANK

SPANK 7:30 min, b/w, video, 1999 Distributed by Video Data Bank In

Spank an eight-second film clip has been re-edited, frame by frame, into a 7 1/2-minute video, transforming discrete gestures into suggestive, pulsating sequences. This deconstruction of narrative Hollywood cinema exposes the punitive yet seductive relationship between a man and a young girl.

Screenings: Guggenheim Museum, NY; New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, NY; Videoex Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland; Instituto Cubano del Arte Industria Cinematograficos, Havana, Cuba