five goats and two sheep

More goats, more promises.

On a cold night, a man entered the pen he owned and shot himself. During the commotion, three goats escaped the pen. That morning, Sabina Stein leaves the government office to the field, and together with Alik, an office clerk, they are required to find the three goats that went rogue.

Two boys, a man and a woman. Two different loves and one sheep.

In each of the valleys stretching to the sides of the river, a goat lives. Both animals consider themselves unsurpassable. One day the goats, finely groomed, go for a walk. They meet on the narrow bridge. Each is indignant at the other, that this one wants to be the most beautiful. Both goats decide to ignore each other. With their heads turned haughtily away, they bump into each other on the middle of the bridge and fall into the water together.

GOATS

Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands and arms are framed in one, and the back of the head and top of the shoulders in the other. This latter view catches the hands when they refer to the head during signing. For Goats and Sheep, Hill changed the color image into black-and-white, re-recorded his own voice and “re-synchronized” it to the original signing. The stereo field is used to double the voice with about a second of delay added to the sound. This doubling mirrors the hands and numerous references and repetitions heard in the text.

A group of traveling goats try to get free food.