PAPER ROUTE
via Robert Frank
personal, not
as
past months’
every day
road [paper road].
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 4-28-09 (8:38 PM)
Initially drafted during a screening of Robert Frank’s 23 minute digital beta (2002), then
revised five times. How did the pool of vocabulary supplied by Frank as he shot insider
footage of the delivery of the local newspaper within range of his home in Mabou, Nova
Scotia not suffice to realize a ten line acrostic? I believe I must have lost interest at
some point during the video, screened towards the end of an 112 minute program of 6 of
his recent films. However, I was certain I had registered something, and quickly started
the revision process in the museum cafeteria as soon as the screening ended. The more
major work--26 lines each starting with “I”--which I was prompted to write during the
initial film projected (“THE PRESENT”, 1996, 35 mm, 24 minutes) definitely requires more
than the 30 minute break between programs for me to conceive of working on it. Just
looking at the initial draft suggests to me that I had quickly exhausted nearly all the
writing I was going to do during the whole program.
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