A film-within-a-film exploring the body in motion, frame by frame. Built with four frames within one, half of the screen in motion, the other still, this film makes the viewer feel that they are watching a “moving picture.” The sensation one gets is of tension…expectation…shock. It freezes one in a frame. The glorious, trenchant music of R. Murray Schafer in the background further adds to the intense “high” of the film. The film consists of images of a dancer in motion alongside still images of bodies and faces in intense masturbation. These powerful images and motions coincide with the chaotic and disturbing energy of the film’s structure and flow, creating an experience not explored before. “Torossian takes thriller conventions – a threatened woman, a gun, a soundtrack of shrieking music -and cranks their hysteria to full blast.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals, 1992
