Works in the Field
1978, English. Directed by Bill Brand.
Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented through optical printing with computer generated mattes. Intercut with a found documentary about family life in Malaysia, the film becomes an essay on reading. Watching the film is like an accelerated game of Concentration with glimpses of the image appearing inside swirling grids. The juxtaposition of the gridded sequences to the conventionally assembled Malaysian footage formulates an inquiry into the nature and meaning of the "document" in cinema.
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- 0h 37m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- 2 January 1978
- Country
- United States of America
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Works in the Field runs 37 minutes (0h 37m).
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Works in the Field isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 January 1978. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Works in the Field?
Works in the Field (1978) was directed by Bill Brand.