from A FIRE IN MY TELLY – DAVID HALL’S “BURNING TV” AND OTHER SCENES OF FIRE

“Hall’s Burning TV employs the basic principle of mise en abymewithout playing it through: Instead of having us look into the abyss of infinite repetition, it features a fire on a screen within our screens, ready to propagate from an absolute reference point into infinite expanse, as if to illustrate the simple fact that all the actual and metaphorical fires on our screens transgress the bounds of their media presence.”