Frames of Reference
Volume 5 Program 2
Investigations

Investigations examines the use of video as an investigative tool, incorporating archival film, testimonial footage, and evidentiary video to construct complex works which call into question the black-and-white representation of cause and effect, fact and fiction.


Stranger with a Camera
Elizabeth Barret
1:01:00   2000
Elizabeth Barret's Stranger with a Camera, a fascinating study of the politics of representation, returns to the Johnson-era War on Poverty to reexamine the killing of a documentary filmmaker by an Appalachian landowner.


Animal Attraction
Kathy High
59:04  2001
In Animal Attraction, Kathy High investigates the possibility of animal to human telepathic communication, and in trying to analyze her animals' needs and her own, ends up with a mixed breed of drives and projections which runs the gamut from Dr. Doolittle to Dr. Freud.