Plumb Line

Plumb Line (1972)

The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed as 16 mm, moving images freeze, frames recur and dissolve until the film bursts into flames, consuming its own substance. Sound: Carolee Schneemann. -- EAI

Date of release
1972-10-14
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
15m
Genres
Fantasy
Director
Carolee Schneemann

Casting

Interesting facts

Plumb Line is a 1971 American experimental short film directed by Carolee Schneemann.

Production

Schneemann began working on Plumb Line in 1968, after the end of a relationship. She used scraps of sound and Super 8 footage captured in New York, London, and Venice. Her narration was recorded in her studio on a tape recorder in what she described as "a state of emotional collapse triggered by the endless Vietnam atrocities and the dissolution of my long relationship with [James] Tenney."

Schneemann carried out the optical printing at the London Film-Makers' Co-op, using an old step-printer she had persuaded a patron to donate.

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