Flip

A film by Ed Bowes

Poetry by William Blake, Frank O’Hara

Performances by Anne Waldman, Laura Wright, Steven Taylor, Michelle Ellsworth, Ethelyn Friend, Remi Luhassois

2006

Flip premiered at the University of Colorado and at the Gould Hall at the Alliance Francais in New York in 2006.

Flip is a witty and philosophical meditation on the nature of language, image, landscape and the fascinating boundaries between “persons” and “objects” and “place”. It follows a small community of individuals through two days of humorous philosophical investigation and inquiry. Flip was shot in and around the front range artistic community of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder. The writing evokes the subtleties of Gertrude Stein where words become surface “things”, and echoes the microcosmic relational attentions of Jane Austen’s tightly knit psychological novels.

“With Flip, Ed Bowes weaves a handsome wonder of intellectual and aesthetic delights. Whether exploring the deceptively disjunctive intricacies of relationships or the delicious parataxis of stunning landscape, Bowes brings to the screen the piercing intensity and generous vision of a filmmaker at the height of his powers.” —Laird Hunt