Sunsets
Beta SP 40 minutes, 2002

In this tape translations are being rendered. Representations of phenomena and the experience of them are attempted. Images are created.

Nine sunsets were recorded with a Sony Mini DV digital camera on nine successive evenings. The words of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss are heard as voice-over in French (the language of its writing) and in English (in translation) as he attempts to describe in precise detail his viewing a sunset; "If I could find a language in which to perpetuate those appearances, at once so unstable and so resistant to description..."

Sunsets credits
Producer/Director/Writer: Barbara Sternberg
Length: 40 minutes
Year of Production: 2002
Sound: Text performed in French & English by JeanMarc Lariviere from "Triste Tropique" by Claude Levi Strauss (chapter 7: "Sunset")
Country of Production: Canada
Exhibition format: vhs, beta sp, mini dv
Preview format: vhs

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