"Bellona" video painting

So,

 I went to the Art Museum to see the Animated Paintings exhibit: my Samuel R. Delany list 
had mentioned the video painting "Belllona" by Ann Lislegaard, inspired by Delany's Dhalgren 
and I sat through two cycles of the 11-minute film piece.  It's not a film of the story of 
<em>Dhalgren</em>- such isn't necessary. It's instead a movement through a series of 
spaces, windowed, mirrored, prismed, lit by spheres which recall the second sun and second 
moon ("George") of lost Bellona, city at the end of time.  It was pretty interesting. Other video 
paintings in the exhibit included simple projections of people washing, walking, etc., and 
some very elaborate pieces. My favorite was a piece by South African artist William Kentridge, 
called <em>Tide Table</em>.  It was hideously complex: he literally drew over and erased 
every frame of the video. It is impossible to describe this art. You simply have to see it.

I feel that Dhalgren would be a far more difficult book to film, and Lislegaard's film instead 
shows us another essential part of the novel: that if Kidd entered the city, he never left it; if 
he left the city, he never entered it.

Jim



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