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Article: In Common Hours
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- Artforum
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- October 1, 2009
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SCOTT MACDONALD on the films of Andrew Noren
SOMETIME IN THE 1970s, I attended a screening - I think it was at the Whitney Museum in New York - that included Andrew Noren's Wind Variations (1968), an eighteen-minute silent meditation on the light play created by curtains gently blowing in the breeze coming through a Manhattan apartment window. I was struck, on the one hand, by the loveliness of the film and, on the other, by its ambivalent reception. When one viewer voiced his displeasure with how "bor- ing" the film was, another told the complainer to shut up. The small authence's continuing volatility provided a stark counterpoint to the visual experience. At that time, slow, meditative ...