Play of distortion

1. Does "earlier video" here mean "the video we talked about earlier"? But I think it should be "the earlier video" to mean that. What is your idea?

2. Does "machine" here mean "the camera"?

3. What does "giving and resisting with her body" mean?

4. Does "play of distortion" mean "playing with distortion"?

5. Does "was projected from a billboard" mean "was displayed on a billboard"?

*** Thank you so much for your answers in advance ***

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This sense of transformative becoming in a fluid space which echoes the polymorphous perversity of auto-eroticism can also be experienced in relation to the video work of Pipilotti Rist. In Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000, Rist’s face is pressed up against the screen as if desiring escape from its confines, her features contorting, her make-up smearing against the glass of the camera in a series of one-minute films. But there is ambivalence in this rage against the frame. There is also a celebratory joy in this confinement that echoes aspects of earlier video’s narcissism, but which I am recasting in terms of attunement, here between flesh and machine. Rist moves in and out of focus, giving and resisting with her body to create enfleshed landscapes that are continually in the process of becoming, due to the play of distortion she effects. The fact that this more fluid narcissian space was projected from a billboard in New York’s Times Square is all the more poignant in that it exhibits for all to see the traces of the body’s relation to its internal otherness which is all but repressed in the codified structures of public space (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).