Of Americans
- Media type
- Film
Of Americans · Of Americans · MOVIE
2023
About this title
The video takes the appearance of words referencing colours in Gertrude Stein’s mammoth tome (294 occurrences over the span of 925 pages) as its main structural device. The longer vertical lines denote chapter breaks. The smaller vertical lines move through the book from left to right of the frame. Part two of a two-part set of videos which are based on Stein’s The Making of Americans. Part 1 is titled The Hyphenation.