Films & Video

“Tracing his artistic roots to three significant influences (Brakhage, Snow, and Cage), Robert Rayher has developed a style which is both sensual and minimalist, rigorous and aleatory, abstract and concrete. His two most recent films, Eureka and Eclipse, are marked by a strongly videographic use of color (or colorization) and by a concrete use of sound qua sound and of language as naming. This latter is strongest in Eclipse, where a deeply saturated rose is “miscolored” and the “misnamed”. Bruce Jankins, Media Study / Buffalo - Fall 1980