Axiom of Choice

Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscuro against a black ground. With Mekas at its center, the references to cinematic machinery abound in this work: from the proto-filmic zoetrope (which used a spinning cylinder to create the illusion of a moving image), to the flickering zoom of Ernie Gehr’s film Serene Velocity, to the enormous gyrating machine at the center of Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale. —Richard Birkett, Karin Schneider & Nicolás Guagnini

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Duration:

5 min

Cast:

Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas

Quality:

HD

Director:

Nicolás Guagnini, Karin Schneider

Release:

2003

Country:

United States

Rating:

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