Scotty and Stuart

Duration: 3

Year Published: 1978

Creator: American Federation of Arts

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Constructed as a visual simile, Sherman's film utilizes a water faucet as the central image in a mysterious vignette that subverts conventions of causality and temporality. Alternating between interior and exterior locales and the stylized actions of a man (the filmmaker) and a woman, the film is rhythmic in an almost musical way, developing images of water from glass to tub to ocean, through clusters of oppositions such as water/fire, man/woman, turning on/turning off, inside/outside. At the end, the protagonists achieve unity and stasis as they sit together on bentwood chairs facing the ocean.

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