Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (audio commentary)

David Rimmer (1942-2023) was a major contributor to the Canadian experimental film movement of the 1970s and 80s. In this audio commentary, Stephen Broomer looks at his landmark film, Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper, the germ of which is a scrap of documentary footage, a medium-wide shot of an assembly line worker, a woman, drawing and shaking out a big sheet of cellophane. The cellophane seems to fly towards the viewer, cast up vertically, such that, as the image evolves, it will come to feel like we are being smothered by it, or drowning in it.