Hold exploits the fact that film is made up of separate frames. The majority of the piece features a new person in every frame, or every eighteenth of a second. For certain periods of the video, two or three people are held longer, by using consecutive frames to jump back and forth between people. The sound and the mechanism of the film are relentless. No resolution is reached. We continue to move forward.
A doctor and his wife move to a new city where they plan to start a new life. However, trouble strikes in the form of a police inspector who gets completely obsessed with the doctor's wife.
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, plotted to assassinate Hitler with a bomb in his briefcase.
During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble.
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility.
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