Reductions of memory, pigments of life. Rolls: 1971, by Robert Huot

Contrary to cultural capitalism, Robert Huot left New York and took refuge on a dairy farm. There he shot Rolls: 1971—possibly the obverse of Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)—in which he found a possible alternative in the informality of filmed diaries, alternating exposure and decomposition in a bold act of editing, like a “reduction” to pigments that fixes experience, without capturing it.

Rolls: 1971, 1972, 16 mm, 97 min.