Tonight and Sunday, a half-dozen brief studies in alienation will be screened in a program called "Only Disconnect," the best of which is a collage of disjointed, abstract narratives called "Nest of Tens," by Miranda July.
One thing is certain: There is very little cinema verite in "Cinema Verite," which is a sprightly collage of talking-head interviews and borrowed clips.
When she cannot stop crying, soothing creams and iodine are rubbed into her back, which is a lunar collage of septic blisters and scabs.
Another is Jane Hammond's Spells and Incantations, which is various prints collaged into a three-dimensional sculptural self-portrait in the style of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
The most interesting of them is Chris Petit's "Asylum," an hourlong "sci-fi narrative collage" which is a bit like a condensed, British version of "Secrets of the Shadow World" without Mr. Kuchar's genially anarchic presence.
The parts differ only subtly but, as with Ms. Hill's work, the creation of a new surface (which is the point of collage) gives "Chinese Landscape" a vitality it would not otherwise have.
Which is the purpose of Collage, a system devised by Nick Feamster and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Traditional steganography hides its message as, say, every 20th word in a letter, or as the colour of every hundredth pixel in an electronic image.
The disembodied voice is followed by a ticking clock and ambient sound collage, which is at once dreamy, disconcerting and beautiful.
Since graduating from Goldsmiths College and Central St. Martins, Prouvost has been exploring the power of the narrative through film, which is often accompanied by collage, painting, drawings, photographs and installation environments.
It also yielded a volume of journal entries and collages, which is on sale at tonyfitzpatrick.com.com
