"Mark Rappaport's first feature, made in 1973, has a title resembling that of Manuel DeLanda's more recent Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches insofar as it points to formal as well as sexual relationships. In fact, Casual Relations bears a distinct relationship to such films as Godard's 1 + 1 and Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism of the same period, which link together widely different chunks of material almost like beads on a string. Rappaport's example in this genre can be seen as a culmination and summation of his nine preceding shorts, all made between 1966 and 1971. Divided into chapters, Casual Relations casually relates love and vampire movies, sound and image, style and obsession, and makes an excellent introduction to Rappaport's glamorously home-made art cinema, which already comprises five features." Jonathan Rosenbaum