This is a three-part tape shot in 1975, ’76, and ’78 as Winsor was working on three pieces: 50/50, Copper Piece, and Burnt Piece. The rhythms and rituals of her working process as well as her comments on the work are documented. Part III is the only filmic record of the final stage of construction of Burnt Piece.
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.