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JIM ALLEN - WORK - HANGING BY A THREAD

VHS PAL 10 minutes
Original Art by Jim Allen
Co Produced & Directed by Jim Allen & Alice Carstensen
D.O.P/Camera: Richard Harling & Daniel Strang
Sound Recordist: Colin Burrell
Editor: Alice Carstensen
Executive Producer: Jim Allen
Distributors: Parsons Bookshop, books@parsons.co.nz

The making and recording of this video was dedicated to the memory of Lygia Clark who died April 26, 1988 at her home in Copacabana.

"How many beings am I to always be seeking from the other being which inhibits my realities of contradictions? How many joys and pains has my body opening like a giant cauliflower given to the other being which is secret within myself?

Within my belly lives a bird, within my breast a lion. The latter is constantly pacing from side to side. The bird screeches, squirms and is sacrificed.

The egg continues to involve it, but now it is the beginning of the other bird which is immediately born after death. There isn't even an interval. It is the feast of life and death intertwined."

"The Fundacio Antoni Tapies" , p191. Lygia Clark, Barcelona, 1997.

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