TOGETHER (US, 1976, James Broughton and Joel Singer)
/In 1976, two years after their meeting, Joel Singer proposed that James Broughton be the subject of an experimental film portrait. This suggestion reenergized Broughton’s artistic practice. The resulting film, TOGETHER, consists of two disparate images of Broughton’s head — captured by Singer on high-contrast, black-and-white, 16mm film — slowly conjoining from opposite sides of the screen via rapid frame-by-frame intercutting. This stroboscopic imagery is accompanied by Broughton’s recitation of his poem of the same name.
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