The Big Show is a light reading letter for its audience, offering up in a succession of printed intertitles, language as the event that takes place. Processed by hand in the filmmaker’s bathtub, the titles struggle to speak beyond a surface disfigured in their development. Fourteen titles appear in all, letrasetted on black cardboard stock, then photographed on high contrast b/w film and processed by hand as a negative to produce white titles on a black ground.
1. The Big Show
2. Please Stand
3. Please Keep Your Lips Together and Your Teeth Apart
4. Make A Sound Only You Can Hear
5. Please Take Both Feet From The Floor
6. Please Cough Belch or Fart
7. Make A Sound Only I Can Hear
8. Is This Like Being In A Foreign Film Without Pictures?
9. If There Was Only One Image Left In The World Would You Be Alone?
10. If You Shut Your Eyes Does The Film Stop
11. Where Is Your Image Now?
12. Please Move Both Hands Together
13. Imagine Yourself Living In A Better Film Than This One. What Would You Do Next?
14. Do It.
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