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