The Idea of North
1995 | 00:14:29 | United States | English | B&W | Mono
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Experimental Film, History, Photography


"In the guise of chronicling the final moments of three polar explorers marooned on an ice floe a century ago, Baron's film investigates the limitations of images and other forms of record as a means of knowing the past and the paradoxical interplay of film time, historical time, real time and the fixed moment of the photograph. Marrying matter-of-fact voiceover and allusive sound fragments, evidence and illustration, in Baron’s words, "meaning is set adrift"."
--New York Film Festival, 1997, Views from the Avant-Garde program notes
Exhibitions + Festivals
8th Courtisane Festival in Gent, Moving Bits section, April 23-26 2009