Images of impending disaster - slamming doors, a truck careening down a hill, and a frayed, almost snapping, elevator rope - collide with the repeated image of a woman's body, cycling toward ephemerality as the woman disappears into the texture of the film itself. In my recent films, I have been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a lush, disorienting, ambiguous film space, and an atmosphere of temporal suspension. In Terrace 49, the space is shattered further, broken into shards; as fractured as memory and as fragile as glass. - Janie Geiser
