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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