release

Bill Morrison's fugue, Release, is pretty much the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. It starts with the middle two seconds (I think?) of a clip and replays that, about 30 times, adding two additional seconds of the front and back of the clip each time. This is perplexing and great. The clips are also mirrored on the other side of the screen, symmetrical. It was so elegant and the geometry left me slack jawed. A simple pan down a street becomes this craze of vanishing points and triangles. I was stupid with awe, I had to cover up one of my eyes to figure out what was happening. It's amazing how random life becomes exquisite choreography when it's doubled. A mongrel's a mutt but two mongrel's are god on earth, are stupefying perfection. No wonder people freak out about twins so much. Twins are great. But simple coordination, something doubled, blows my (everybody's) mind.

frank