Post-access (2009+) · 2009 · 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.