Split Decision (movie)
- User score: 10
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Bill Brand
- Production companies: New York State Council on the Arts, Millennium Film Workshop, The Committee on Visual Arts
- Genre: Drama, Animation
- Release date: 1/1/1979
- Run time: 15 min.
Movie description
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.
