18 Traffic Light Changes/Durations(1970)

Overview

The first of Robert Polidori's completed moving-image works – which was presented at the Jewish Museum in a Film-Makers’ Cinematheque program on May 27, 1970 – was 18 Traffic Light Changes/Durations (1970), a film that shows the clear influence of Michael Snow, as well as an affinity with the contemporaneous work of Ernie Gehr and other structuralist filmmakers.