It reoresents how cinema was viewed at that time in a magical way. Object floating and flying all over deals with depth of the screen and space around it. It's about missing links in cinema and abstract imagery giving objects their anonimity. Reappearance of guns and males with beards evoke post war feelings. Anti-linguistic so sound is used very well versus for what it was really meant. Finally this piece deals with time as the foreground for everything.
Film about cutting and truncated bodies based on dreams. It is all about imagination and association by making spaces comfy with the viewer. This piece forces to look and see in order to give a sense of what a dream is like beacue the film itself is too logical. It contains themes with certain things placed together. It deals with voyeurism, gratification, culture, and religion.
About image and space. Artist wants interaction with the piece to make it more abstract and recognizable by either clapping or talking. It is about producing a 3D object within a gallery concept. how far could the piece be stretched before it loses its meaning. Thus, medium is less important then the space around. This film deals with gallery context of where and how it should be montaged together inside a closed four-wall space in order to sell it.
I feel like this film was about paralysis. It freezes your mind because you cannot change what you are seeing. there is not a lot that can be grabbed. The film does not allow the viewer to move within it. It plays with the notion of what film is becaue it in front of you and you are stuck with the image no matter what. Gives a feeling of malevolence and dark thoughts. The bleeding of images between characters gave a push/ pull effect to it. The voice of the maker is definitely created through a subjectivity and personal idiosyncrotic voice. As a result, scenes are mixed and matched together.
It deploys idiosyncrosy and distant imagery. Audience feels the mechanism and intentionality. There is a disjunction of words through quick repetition of one. It has a viceral feel with juxtapositions. This film puts your mind where you can be thrown by it even though you've seen a lot in the real world. Lastly, it evokes a relationship to linear way and experimentation.
Creates depth of film. Harry smith created an obssessive geometric pattern on film. It exhuberates the premium of human agency. The way the squares are painted you get a sense of the paint dripping down from the brush in the beginning. Shapes form the abstraction themselves. The film is organic with constructive reality giving it weight. This movie is all about seeing so audience is oppositional according to Stan Brakhage.
