It was a guilty awareness that lay beneath the postmodern sensibility and its celebration of the endless play of images and surfaces.
The shifting scroll-like play of images is set to sonorous music, primarily by the Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger, who also appears briefly on screen, playing his heart out.
She accompanies the 40 pictures, all from the museum's collection, with Sontag quotations, placed high on the walls, and leaves the play of images and words allusive rather than illustrative, free to generate mood as much as meaning, as Sontag would have wished.
He determinedly rejected the traditional empiricist view that thinking is primarily a play of images, that language is semantically grounded in imagery, and that the principal role of language is to communicate the results of our inner, imaginal thought processes to others.
In a similar fashion, Baudrillard, a "strong simulacrist," claims that in the media and consumer society, people are caught up in the play of images, spectacles, and simulacra, that have less and less relationship to an outside, to an external "reality," to such an extent that the very concepts of the social, political, or even "reality" no longer seem to have any meaning.
Many of her paintings play on images such as the clay vessels at Cana, where Jesus is said to have turned water into wine.
It would be presumptuous to say they influenced him, but there is a common sensibility, an interest in the play of vivid images and cryptic language, in irreverence and in the power of information and fact, carefully assembled and collated.
All these people are to some degree reflections of Lola or her vanished lover, and part of the pleasure of the movie lies in watching Demy choreograph this intricate play of mirror images as the characters flicker past one another -- sometimes recognizing themselves, fleetingly, but more often not.
The video plays on images of nature which are fundamental to O'Keeffe a cactus, mountains, dry land, flowers.
Thinking about Surrealism — particularly with respect to the play of language and image, and the gift of odd juxtapositions — puts Marclay's work in a slightly different light for me.
