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Tending Towards the Horizontal

Directed by Barbara Sternberg
Canada, 1989 (experimental, 32 minutes, colour)
Tending Towards the Horizontal
Image: © Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Film Description:
"The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits on a hay bale, watching the city below; and a woman in a library who reads only what others have left behind. The filmed images are predominantly houses: houses seen in passing, along the horizontal; houses reflecting sky and trees in their windows; houses partially hidden by trees or the shadows they cast; houses and office towers simultaneously pictured in stages of demolition and construction. [...]"
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Barbara Sternberg
Produced by: Barbara Sternberg
(sources)


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