A First Quarter   01:25:00 1975
Using the structure of a feature film as its basic format, A First Quarter adopts the principles of nouvelle vague cinema. Simultaneous realities, altered flashbacks, and plays on time and space, are all components of the form and content of this film. Because it was originally shot on video, then kinescoped to 16mm film, A First Quarter has acquired a softened, poetic look. The dialogue derives entirely from the creation of the work as it is spoken and read, built, enacted, written, and painted by the players. As scenarios build, they appear as tropes, one after another.	Biography of Lawrence Weiner Titles by Lawrence Weiner: Affected and/or Effected Altered to Suit Beached A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More Broken Off Do You Believe in Water? Done To Eyes on the Prize: Part One of Hearts and Helicopters A First Quarter For Example: Decorated Green As Well As Blue As Well As Red How Far Is There: Part Two of Hearts and Helicopters Nothing To Lose Passage to the North Plowman's Lunch Reading Lips A Second Quarter Shifted From the Side There But For To and Fro. Fro and To. And To and Fro. And Fro and To. Trailer for Plowman's Lunch With a Grain of Salt: Part Three of Hearts and Helicopters Work by Lawrence Weiner also appears on: Compilation: Lawrence Weiner: Hearts and Helicopters - A Trilogy Compilation: Lawrence Weiner:There are Things that Move Outside of Motion PROGRAM: Weiner Program 5