Line, 2007 (excerpt)
Running time: 8:25 minutes / SD / Black & white

A fragment of a branch can be seen through a windowpane as its linear form becomes distorted by the blurring of raindrops. What is left is an image of a line, both forming and dissolving as it encounters movement, light, reflection and refraction.

Camera: Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Brigitte Dajczer, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: Malcolm Goldstein, violin

About the musician:
Malcolm Goldstein is a composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theatre, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.