Video

Any Hard Surface Will Do

Michael Balser

1984, 06:30 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 222.00

David MacLean plays a paranoid artist who hears gossip through a wall and plays out his revenge through the looking glass of the video switcher (split screen).

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Critical Writing

Focus on Michael Balser
by Andrew J. Paterson. Canadian Art, Spring 1989, v. 6, no. 1.
TWO MEN EMBRACING: GAY VIDEO IMAGES
by John Greyson. Video Guide, Dec. 1986, v. 8, no. 4.