Pictures of the Lost Word (1975)

For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones sludgy harbours power lines abandoned railway stations or deserted factories The interplay between the two sets of imagery is not simple Wyborny photographs his modern ruins at their most ravishing at dawn or sunset partially reflected in the water or glimpsed through the trees Shots recur throughout optically printed into brilliant colours or else given the washed out quality of fifth generation Xeroxes As there are few people shown ones impression is of a planet that is populated mainly by cows barges and hydraulic drills