Group Portrait
Channel: Zachary Rombakis
Date: 2023-10-16

In falling well within the context of experimental cinema, “Group Portrait” implements abstraction. For example, in watching damaged original footage, the audience is aware of being distanced from the “real” of the original motion picture. Similarly, as we the viewers watch a crowd of onlookers engaged in unintentional mirthful cruelty toward innocents, we are witnessing an emotional distance - or abstraction - from the drama of the narrative, an emotional distance with unspeakable consequences.