Film directed by Phil Solomon in 1989 (revised in 1994). It received the First Prize at the Oberhausen Film Festival.
Film notes 'Chemical and optical treatments were used to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then dissolving somewhere between the operating theater, the waterfall, and the Great Plains.' --Canyon Cinema catalog 1992.
'In the melancholic REMAINS TO BE SEEN, dedicated to the memory of Solomon's mother, the scratchy rhythm of a respirator intones menace. The film, optically crisscrossed with tiny eggshell cracks, often seems on the verge of shattering. The passage from life into death is chartered by fugitive images: pans of an operating room, an old home movie of a picnic, a bicyclist in vague outline against burnt orange and blue... Solomon measures emotions with images that seem stolen from a family album of collective memory.' --Manohla Dargis, Village Voice.
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Copies for rent: Canyon Cinema Light Cone