Film is said to be "a term that encompasses individual motion pictures." To be completely honest, I got nothing out of the work by Mr. Snow and the other earlier works we saw. It took until when Ms. Marks came in yesterday to actually be enlivened by the work. The first piece "Vacuum, " drove me crazy, but in a good way. I didn't understand why the man would be vacuuming snow! It drove me so crazy that i couldn't stop watching it. I kept thinking, "how much snow is he going to vacuum?"
The other piece i found extremely interesting is "Les Egares." The thing i found so impressive was that they were standing on top of a temple, in a truly beautiful setting. You could hear the wind pick up. The one man was circling around a pole of some sort and to me it seemed as he was hypnotized. The film also showed a woman laying down on the top of the temple. Her hair was flailing in the wind it to me it seemed like she was either giving up, or being submissive for some reason. The last thing that struck me was the older man that was standing perfectly straight up like a soldier. I thought to myself, "Is he trying to defend the temple?"
Until Tuesday i was contemplating about not coming to class anymore because i just couldn't get myself motivated. Now i see things in a total different scope. Its kind of pathetic it took so long, but better late than never right???!?!?!?
1 comment:
Adam.....so I'm glad to see a blog from you finally. Now I have something to comment on. I'm running out of ideas for my own posts. I agree with you on "Vacuum," at first I was annoyed by it though. Why would someone vacuum snow? However, even though I knew nothing new would come to screen, I wanted to keep watching. After the quiz we took today, I was more interested in that particular film. It got me thinking on how the subject related to exile, and the different types of culture shock. I'm still not quite sure but none the less, it was interesting.
My two favorites from Marks' lecture were definitely "Allahu Akbat," the trippy, black and white film with belly dancing music in the background and "Sad Man," the only animated film. To me, they were the most unique we've seen so far and I wasn't falling asleep, which says a lot. By the way, I like the quote, "a term that encompasses individual motion pictures." Nice.
Post a Comment