Serial Metaphysics

Serial Metaphysics is a 1972 collage film by experimental filmmaker Wheeler Winston Dixon.

Summary

An examination of the American lifestyle recut entirely from existing television commercials creating "a vision of the world as viewed through the eyes of the corporate sponsor with a target audience in mind".
Ed Halter from The Village Voice stated that Wheeler's "loopy Americana remix grooves to an increasingly trippy reverb."

Production

The film was edited down all in one night on New Year's Eve from 72 hours of TV commercials.

Reception and legacy

The Whitney Museum of American Art showed the film where then-curator Bruce Rubin commented that Wheeler "is a masterful film editor. His sensitivity to the movement within the frame and of the camera itself allows for fluidity in his editing that is exuberant and refreshing. It is as though his films tap into our collective unconscious by exploring the surface realities that permeate our lives."