Post-access (2005+) · 2006 · Film · The bookend

Checkmate

Some details here are as reported in critical and community accounts, not independently confirmed.

His major late statement and the bookend to the public-access years: a near-silent, static, expressionist meditation on a chess motif, scored largely to Mahler's Ninth Symphony and structured around five symbolic chessboards. Television Is Watching You appears inside it as a film-within-a-film. Reported at roughly 27–30 minutes, it is the work critics treat as his masterpiece. It was finished by late 2006, then recut for the 2009 release that brought it its reviews.