A minimal, suggestive narrative about a summer trip to the Jersey Shore, fictionalized by subtraction. The film combines still photos, moving image, and precise sound design with barely perceptible animation to create a subliminal effect, and an ambivalence about what's remembered and what's imagined.
— Liza Bear
During the late 1970s Liza Béar created an intriguing body of work that focused on communications issues — specifically the use of media and the disempowered role of the public in communications policy. Central to Béar's early work was a desire to tie the means of production (technology) to the reasons for production (economic advantage, national ideology, etc.). While Béar's concerns have diversified, her approach is always personal and experimental — collapsing the norms of narrative and documentary, subjective authorship and objective document.