Alaska1980

Alaska
is a poetic visual and sound document of my sister’s wedding to a homesteader in Homer, Alaska, where I filmed my future brother-in-law as heslaughtered a steer and kayaked during stormy weather.
“
Alaska
is a very successful film, as much to hear as to watch. Its cacophony melds with the anarchic, Brakhage-like camera work to mirror the seeminglyunintelligible force of nature. By showing people in the act of killing another animal for food, von Ziegesar undermines our notions of ‘civilization.’ It’s not managainst the elements, it’s man
within
them.” –Doug Frost,
The New Art Examiner