Work Done transports the viewer to a variety of times and places. Old-world customs are juxtaposed with contemporary urban scenes. Color filters heighten the contrast between the natural and man-made worlds. Ruskin foregrounds Robert Beavers’s love of literature, architecture, and landscape. (The filmmaker’s hand rests on a volume of John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice, and much of the film is shot in the environs of Venice, London, and the Swiss Alps.) AMOR uses themes of cutting and sewing as metaphors. Cloth is cut and fabric is sewn, shrubs are trimmed and hedges form majestic garden archways, and a male figure claps his hands as if to signal a sync cue on which there is a visual cut. Central to this work are the complex emotions surrounding love, separation, and the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of edited image and sutured sound.