The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

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biograph continuity girl


who is the continuity girl. she writes and underlines these words; she
checks spelling and stylistic consistency. in the world, she writes, she
makes certain that day is day, night is night; that if day for night, then
not night for day; if night for day, then not day for night. she wears
careful glasses, is twenty-three years old, and a graduate of ucla's
motion picture / television department. she has been an extra in several
post-blair-witch-project student films, shot in will rogers state park.
she is originally from portland, maine. she studied with leslie thornton
in brown university's modern culture and media department for her
undergraduate work. it was only later that she decided to remain on the
periphery of cinema, closely observing everything around her. the film
was secondary, she writes, to the continuous reiteration of the real. she
thinks she is a machine. she thinks she is the perfect eye. she thinks she
is the inconceivable eye. i am the continuity girl, she writes, who am i.

who is the continuity girl. she writes and underlines these words; she is
killing everything. everything is destroyed and mutilated. what damage
have you done; she... a soldier rapes me. i rape a soldier. i am terror.
i am terror of the real. i make certain that day is day, night is night;
that if day for night, then what is mine, who is the continuity girl. she
writes and underlines these words: SHE IS YOURS. SHE IS YOUR BIOTERRORISM
HERE. i dream of the naked dead-man, she writes. i am hungry. i make
things.

she is in the armor. she writes, i owe everything to leslie thornton and
john malkovich. she writes, i will be naked all the time. she takes off
her baggy sweater. she writes, i am of the real. n/g. i am the real. i am
film. armies film me. i will write their names. the glass is on the right-
hand side. it is cloudy out and 9 o'clock in the early night. she writes,
people are dying. she writes, people are staring at me.

i am happy.

she makes certain that day is day, night is night; that if day for night,
then:checks spelling and stylistic consistency. in the world, she writes,
she:who is the continuity girl. she writes and underlines these words;
she:thinks she is a machine. she thinks she is the perfect eye. she thinks
she :careful glasses, is twenty-three years old, and a graduate of ucla.


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