Gregg Biermann

MONTAGE

"In Gregg Biermann's 17 minute 'Montage' allusive often abstract images - a silhouette, some trees, geometrical light patterns - are intercut to form repetitive and rhythmic sequences. But just when you think Biermann's using set patterns , the order switches. The mysterious aura that results leaves you feeling that the images are indeed trying to say something; you just can't figure out what that is. This is O.K.: Biermann wants to avoid simple narrative explanations." -- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

 "Calling a film 'Montage' would be like calling a painting 'Renaissance Perspective' " -- Ernie Gehr

"Biermann's films teeter on that friendly chasm betwixt the lyrical and the structural" -- Brian Frye