: This two projector work was created as an antidote to the strict and manipulative use of footage in traditional documentaries. After having edited a television program on the end of the Vietnam War, I took several archetypal images of evacuation and imprisonment, reprocessing them using an optical printer. It was important that the images not be assigned contextual meaning and that an inherent "openness" of association was at work. The work explores many of the oppositions of war: oppressor/oppressed, what can be understood/what is impossible to understand, among others. The sound track is the only fixed element, and is composed of Vietnamese folk songs, processed "western" music and readings from Kafka's notebooks of 1920. The last piece of text is a reporter's tape journal entry four days before the evacuation of Saigon. Dan Eisenberg