NEW ALPHAVILLE
by Laura K. Jones



Time and its disruptions have long been important to the work of the Brooklyn-based filmmaker Eve Sussman, notably in the mesmerizing 89 seconds at Alcázar (2004), which purports to bring the viewer just up to the moment that is Diego Velasquez' Las Meninas, and the well-reviewed Rape of the Sabine Women (2007), which is lavish, deliberate and anything but linear.

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