Evoking the physiognomy of a Rembrandt portrait, Axiom of Choice depicts Jonas Mekas and his son Sebastian, their heads rotating in radiant chiaroscuro against a black ground. With Mekas at its center, the references to cinematic machinery abound in this work: from the proto-filmic zoetrope (which used a spinning cylinder to create the illusion of a moving image), to the flickering zoom of Ernie Gehr’s film Serene Velocity, to the enormous gyrating machine at the center of Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale. —Richard Birkett, Karin Schneider & Nicolás Guagnini
Nicolás Guagnini
Director
Karin Schneider
Director
Roundhay Garden Scene64%
Mr. Nobody77%
Dalíland59%
Jodorowsky's Dune78%
The Shift64%
The Brave Little Toaster69%
Primer67%
Time Lapse65%
One Mile: Chapter One70%
Paris, Texas81%
Caicedo (with Pole)60%
Dick Johnson Is Dead71%
The Greatest Story Ever Told63%
57 Seconds61%
Freaked61%
Blade Runner79%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Mifune: The Last Samurai71%
Memento82%
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein64%
