Gary Goldberg

Last Friday I saw this wonderful film 'Plates' by Gary Goldberg at Millennium Film Workshop and totally loved it. The characters were weird, but funny, there was almost no story, but a situation: one serves plates to the other, the other misbehaves. One acts as shy, polite, and friendly, the other mischievous, capricious, assertive and even dominant. The set up: table in the middle of the scene and two actors on both corners reminded me of some Jan Švankmajer's scenes.

The copy of the film I saw was much worse than on this picture. It was a transfer from an old VHS to DVD.

His films were preserved by many galleries and Millennium is one of them. This is an ad from a November 1990 issue of New Yorker:

And this is Goldberg's script for 'Plates'

There is very little information about Goldberg online:

A great overview of GG's films:
http://www.jerry501.com/preserve/gary/Gary.html
http://www.jerry501.com/preserve/gary/script.html
also refers to jerry501 http://collaborativecity.tumblr.com/post/5134284261/the-script-for-plates-by-gary-goldberg-first
http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/G/GoldbergG_char.html
http://collaborativecity.tumblr.com/page/30
http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw42/0358.html
http://thevillager.com/villager_144/billrice74.html