In 24/70 Western, recognition of the image being filmed (an anti-war poster picturing the My Lai massacre entitled "And Babies") is withheld, through close-up filming of the surface of the image, never stepping back to reveal the whole. The method in this film (as in 20/68 Schatzi) acts to subvert the quick responses of viewers to such loaded imagery.
In all of Kren's films, the images are variously covered and uncovered, hidden and revealed, never taken for granted. (David Levi Strauss, "Notes on Kren: Cutting Through Structural Materialism or, 'Sorry. It had to be done.'," in: Cinematograph I, San Francisco 1985)
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