A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling (2001)

A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling is a nonnarrative videotape shot entirely in and around central Ohio This tape was shot over a two week period but means to document a day in the life of the Midwestit begins at swim team practice at 800am and ends after midnight in the parking lot of an allnight grocery store It is a series of idiosyncratic sequences which suggest a certain sense of extreme in the gestures of the everyday A man waits for his flight in the airport A teenage girl walks through her subdivision to meet a friend An older woman washes her hair in the sink A young boy sits on the floor playing video games A plane flies overhead Clouds shift Cars move across the overpass A grocery store is open all night