way (2012)

San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapinos most celebrated poem waya sprawling booklength odyssey of shardlike urban impressions fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sunkissed SF street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number