Rodney Graham: Phonokinetoscope

by Shep Steiner and Sessional Faculty Shepherd Steiner

An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham's film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride.

Rodney Graham's Phonokinetoscope (2001) is a five-minute 16mm film loop in which the artist is seen riding his Fischer Original bicycle through Berlin's Tiergarten while taking LSD, to the soundtrack of a fifteen-minute song (written and performed by Graham) recorded on a vinyl LP. The turntable drives the projection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846381223
• ISBN13: 9781846381225
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Afterall Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher