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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/view.asp?key=19&subkey=410]Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg (link)[/url]

... Part nightmare, part morality tale, the film references the artist’s interest in theater of the absurd. In turns intense, hilarious, shocking, and gruesome, this work brings to mind the lavish, visceral cinematic tableaux associated with Peter Greenaway as well as the cautionary spirit of Peter Newell’s children’s classic, The Rocket Book, 1912, in which an actual hole penetrates each page to depict a launch trajectory through the various floors of an apartment building. ...

... [Phoebe Greenberg] summarizes not only her film but also the spirit of these times of economic instability as by recognizing that “In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events undermines the endless symphony of abundance…” ...