Split Decision

Split Decision

15 mins | Drama, Animation | Jan. 1, 1979

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.

Split Decision

15 mins | Drama, Animation | Jan. 1, 1979

Split Decision
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.
Producers New York State Council on the Arts, Millennium Film Workshop, The Committee on Visual Arts
Original title Split Decision
Directors Bill Brand, Kathleen King
Writers

Cast

Nicky Paraiso

as Ching

Kevin Coleman

as Sam

Jack Shapira

as Bartender

Brett Sussler

as Chic Woman

Sylvia Morales

as Chic Woman

Lauren Abrams

as Bar Crowd

Bruce Bixler

as Bar Crowd

Bill Brand

as Bar Crowd

Betzy Bromberg

as Bar Crowd

Felix Kutlik

as Bar Crowd

Carmen Vigil

as Bar Crowd

Jacki Ochs

as Bar Crowd

Katrina Martin

as Bar Crowd

Louis Laudfield

as Bar Crowd

Edward Dunphy

as Bar Crowd