Your Television Traveler. 1991–2024. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. DCP. 18 min.
Knot/Not. 2019. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. DCP. 22 min.
Entanglement. 2022. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. DCP. 27 min.
A Private Room. 2024. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim and Forrest Sprague. DCP. 10 min.
Your Television Traveler was shown in its 16mm print form in the Larry Gottheim Shorts I program. Here, in its digital form, it foreshadows the use of found footage and superimposition in the three digital films that follow here: Knot/Not and Gottheim’s most recent works, Entanglement and A Private Room, both of which were inspired by concepts from quantum physics. Most of the material in Knot/Not, a film of a musical and historical nature, comes from a TV documentary about the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, edited to a song about multiplication. Entanglement is a train ride through a landscape inhabited by figures ranging from Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra to the Norns from Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung. A Private Room moves from bittersweet, unexpected comedy to the anguish of the human condition, in which we are locked inside ourselves, trying and failing to connect. Presented in their original digital files.