Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscuro against a black ground. With Mekas at its center, the references to cinematic machinery abound in this work: from the proto-filmic zoetrope (which used a spinning cylinder to create the illusion of a moving image), to the flickering zoom of Ernie Gehr’s film Serene Velocity, to the enormous gyrating machine at the center of Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale. —Richard Birkett, Karin Schneider & Nicolás Guagnini
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Stars: Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas
Crew: Karin Schneider (Director), Nicolás Guagnini (Director)
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
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Runtime: 5 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 2003
IMDb: 10
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