This work is one in a series of films made by Denise Hawrysio in the 1980s by attaching a Super-8 camera to various machines or devices: the visual content of each film is determined solely by the events and actions of the context in which it was made; the duration of each film is determined by the length of one Super-8 cartridge. Here, the camera was mounted on a long-handled shovel being used by a municipal worker. No editing was done outside the camera.
The soundtrack — also unedited — is from a cassette tape bought from a street vendor in New York City for 25¢ by Wynne. On the tape was a series of phone calls between two men whose interactions are characterised by a remarkably idiosyncratic use of expletives aimed at each other. John acquired the tape in the 80s but didn't add it to the previously silent film until it was digitised in 2003.