Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974)

Possibly the most lucid vivid and awesome demonstration of the building up of still images to create moving ones Pasadena Freeway Stills simply gracefully and powerfully shows us the process by which we are fooled by the movies By doing so Gary Beydler mines a very rich vein of associations and metaphor without the slightest ostentation Constructed as a thrilling arc of realization and in a quite moving way disappointment the film is a beautiful articulation of our emotional entanglement with moving images while simultaneously creating a form in which the illusion of cinema is brought into incredible relief as the film were watching gradually catches up to the film Gary is holding up to the camera with his hands one frame at a time Mark Toscano