Om

[club35134194|PALIVIDOS Entertainment.] Om (1986) 4 mins. Colour. Sound. 16mm. John Smith © “This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes - aural, visual and ideological. Smith signals these stereotypes to the viewer through a chiefly associational system, which deftly manipulates the path of our expectations. The structure is stunningly simple and deceptively subtle. We are taken on a journey from one concrete stereotype to its diametric opposite, as images transform and juxtapo