Jury-rigging one videotape across 2 open-reel videotape machines to make a time-delay system, two actors build up into multiple layers on the screen… Decades later Zieman heard a name for this direction in electronic image-making: Twitch Art… “ It felt a bit Proto-Punk at the time, to me.”
A coherent meta-philosophy emerges from Zieman’s onscreen writing, however intentionally distressed and hard to read.
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