By the 1980s, Ortiz's discovery of the possibility of using the new digital, laser, and video technologies as a means of ritually shredding-deconstrucing and reconstructing-moments from conventional cinema allowed him to devise an almost sedentary process for responding "violently" to the overt and implicit psychic violence promoted and marketed by the media.-Scott MacDonald In the case of the young Austrian independent Martin Arnold, motion study and magic have been central tactics for deconstructing and refashioning conventional Hollywood visual and auditory gestures. While Muybridge seems to have believed his photographs analyzed the motion or "reality," Arnold is well aware that Pièce Touchée explores a Hollywood cliché that is, at most, only a pretense of reality.-Scott MacDonald