By Stephen Barber
Taking as its topic the "intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen", it charts the virulent implosions of tradition, the distortions and violence that provide city-living its fractured and hallucinatory quality.
Provocatively written as a chain of inter-locking poetic fragments, the textual content conjures up the formation of metropolitan "identity" because it ricochets among the actual floor of town and the weak yet manipulating recognition of urban dwellers.
Barber has came upon a strong new vocabulary – a vocabulary charged with the visible and sonic impression of the cinema. just like the urban, the textual content pulsates, creatively chaotic, uncooked and exhilarating.
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