"Doll with Hole" (a silent film) is edited to intentionally stop for a brief moment (1 or 2 seconds) from time to time to examine the image in the stopped frame, and then the movie resumes. Brice S. Bowman has a reason for this momentary pause in the film. It connected to his previous history as a Painter before becoming a Filmmaker. While a Painter Brice S. Bowman spent a lot of time in museums standing in front of paintings for periods of time closely examining paintings before him. He was extremely connected to viewing a static silent image and all of its related pictorial technical and conceptual elements. With this in mind as a background Brice S. Bowman stopped his film "Doll with Hole" on certain frames to view the image as it would be viewed as a two-dimensional work of art. Thus "Doll with Hole" being an earlier film not so far removed time wise when Brice S. Bowman as a serious Painter "Doll with Hole" is an intriguing film displaying the artistic expressive thought process literally leaving a static media into the realm of moving media. Consequently the work in "Doll with Hole" is a very important window into the mind of Brice S. Bowman the "becoming ex-Painter" turning into an artist learning how to, and importantly what to express with images that are not static.
The other topic in "Doll with Hole" is love, sex, and hate, naiveté and abuse by other people as a general human mode of operation.
The film was shot in regular 8mm black and white film then each scene was hand colorized in Final Cut Pro. So there are two versions of "Doll with Hole", one in color and one in black and white. However, they are not exactly the same film as Brice S. Bowman made two versions of the film.