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.
Digital world that changes world around us. Travel through time and screen viewed not as a flat surface. Sense of depth is portrayed with elements that make up our space. Audience can goin and out. This piece plays with the juxtaposition between the image inside and what the image is.
Omage to Hitchkock with very fast images something that we have moved on from. This film is a mere act of translation with all narrative ripped. This piece is like the spirit of a movie is re-done. Having landscapes and other mediums in a fast mirrored motion it takes on a form of its own. The images blend and differentiate point of view to the viewer.
A push pull is exherted in this movie. Pictures depict the backwards motion in time while the narrative moves forward in time. Words are also created front to back creating a paranoid fanatsy. Therefore, the audience is brought into it accepting the unreal when suddenly certain images make sense. This poses a question what makes certain images fit and others not.
Bunch of found footage with a lot of funky stuff. It exhibits areas of montage getting a mixture bewteen what is real and what isn't. This piece gives the viewer a sense that something is going to happen. Therefore, it is mixed and charged so you can't tell apart between violence and sex. What is bottled up comes out narratively. Towards the end audience is glad to be in one space and laugh at what is not seen. It can be viewed as silly due to the music with cartoon sensibility.
This film is portrayed in a style of photography through paradime of mugshots. The audience is challenged to think about what is power since everyone is in the same state. the nature of reproduction is being questioned as well. This film also evokes how imagination is internalized, but films turn it back.
This film is in a documentary style creating a fake world based on facts. The director is in control of what is cut and edited in or out of this film. As audience views this they are compelled towards how real it is due to the extent of weirdness that it leaves them with nothign else but the feeling that it's got to be real. Here you can see the representation of an image using something mainstream for something that is not. In addition, this film evokes archival history and how we piece fragments together.
This film attacks the spectacle by creating one. The video is much more conscious of the TV while this film is about the subconsciousness to media. This film is about anti-commodity with an idea that image is refracted through culture. This entire piece is about our expectations with a pool of reactions channelling within.
It''s about the acquisition of language while rythm puts it all together. Replacing a letter with an image gives it a sense of a visual world that we live in. The visual side and space supesceed. Taking out letters also makes you think why. Repetition of certain images sets up a rhythm that the audience sticks to. This exposes the idea of how knowledge is recognized. Formal trickery builds anticipation. Space is dealing with volume and mass in accordance to what it is. This piece deals with what the alphabet is and its depth of annunciating. Audience unlearns all visual items to make them see again. In conclusion images fly quicker than words with a sense that time is passing.
The viewer is aware of space and time due to the passing cars on the streets. The voice is not quite written, but spoken. The angles at which this piece was shot creates depth giving it texture that an essay cannot have. This film also plays with how we trust and judge a voice. There is little focus, rather focus on the self placing bits of knowledge together. Bill Brown successfully brings in the viewer visually and writerly.
3'-7''-77 represents the Montana Grave. The BUTTE didactic serves the piece in an opposition as the songs for the BUTTE miners are played. Words appear linearly as hearing someone else's and not just the author's. Music complicates things while the film is searching. This film evokes a sense that someone is discovering history along the way. The songs contain cognitive space in order to place the audience into the hardships. The voice of the man has a context because of its stern way and taking a stand. The voice has idiosyncrosity while subjective and personal. The images aren't any less important than the voice. Time and space use the entire screen. This film is able to say what is important unlike an essay that cannot point out which paragraph is significant. The viewer is definitely aware of absence and presence when part or entire screen in used in this film.
This piece shows thinking of the author and invites the viewer to do the same. Annoying sounds along with images of graffitti-covered walls create a double screen. This gives opportunity and places the audience within some context which becomes easier to understand. Written text and voiceover are functions which help the meaning as well. In this film the expectations set makes the viewer react to their education.
Evokes just the idea of color. Shadows deal with the space and flatness of the area as it reminds of the grain on film. It is a perfect illusion of space and aparadoxical. The thought of urban existence does not make you thinnk of green right away. This piece transforms that train of thought with "Greene" as the irony. Audience's world becomes kinetic, context changes and world collapses as a result. This piece is a representation of how a movie is made out of your own movie on screen, as Ernie Gehr concluded.
Old still image photos placed together in monatge-like way. Boat rowing, engine sounds, and horns serve as the sounds relative to a journey. These are clear implications of a moving image. It focuses on train of though since it is hard to pinpoint right away whether it is a boat or train. This piece is the missing part of Ernie Gehr's life. His interest in composition was unintentional. What it also allows is to find out who you are on the inside filling that space of death and departure.
Since the piece is filmed on a flea market it represents perfect chaos. Images reflected in puddles give you, as a viewer, that sense of being there standing on a side. Having no clue whose reflections they may be it challenges the viewer to place him or herself in there as well. The awkwardness of silence in an environment where the speed of time and chaos is crucial portrays a sense of vitality of the moment itself. The background playing Lambada on a radio humanizes the ordeal on this muddy terrain. Reflections can be seen as the lives of these people filmed. Connotations of daily life are reflected through abstraction and space representation. This film definitely is all about catching the experience of a feeling.
An image is beautifully created through dissection from a moving train. It brings us into to the chaos and immediacy with fast buildings and streets passing the audience. The breaking of silence with sounds of the train and a woman's heels makes it more humanistic and realistic. These background sounds help to place yourself in a frame while everything is in motion. Playfullness of the rectangular shape of the screen as a window provides affiliation with elements.
This piece is very alluring and attractive by the clarity of froms as well as the color scheme. You can see the shutter shutting on the camera making the viewer aware of who is behind the lens. The tactility and wind represent what is happening between the two. You are aware of what film is all about. The texture and graininess.
This work allows us to look at our own worlds in a small way. It allows the audience to be conscious of how it can be made one's own. It pays attention to domestic detail. The world that is being portrayed is a video world which makes the sound much cleaner. The domestic universe makes it possible to venture out. Psychologically challenging because it makes you think what each element is while appreciating the everyday. Therefore, a movie can ber about anything you want it to be.
This film is about the maker. As a viewer you are compelled to think what is out there in the film world. It is very audio-visual and single framed. This way the piece portrays everyone as an artist through a diary of "Alternate Heroes". It is more like a music video ratherthan a written diary once you get sucked into the language. The fact that there is no beginning, middle, or end it signifies the order of how memories are stored and brought back into existence. Since only ine song is used throughout it gives the feel of one piece. Although, if the narrative was to be taken out it would bring int he viewer even closer. This can be said about this piece because it does challenge the viewer to piece it together at a point where a camera is just left lying on the table. This enables an image to be viewed at different depths and points of view that in turn changes the entire narrative along the way. Once again different people see things and figure out images in different ways.
It's about water and repetition of daily routines. The sound tranqulizies you. Mekas is pushing information to see how much a human eye can take through single frames. The Frenetic and Kinetic motion is demanding of the viewer. Everyone's experience in watching this film is his/her own therefore it cannot be re-created. Whatever image is posed it is accepted in a collage/montage way. The craft of a controlled chaos reflects back onto the maker. It is only a trip like someone writing in a diary. Viewers are challenged by the task of nostalgia asking the viewer to look back in. That way it feels like it is someone else's life, but it's idealogically humanistic in a generalized way. This piece playa at a level of subject and craft, and reality and opposition simultaneously.
The black and white of the movie with bits of color allows the viewer to peek into his story a little deeper when tints of color show up. Also, what Mekas is trying to do with this feature is to highlight certain points as if he were recording his past. This is done as successfully with the voice over which makes us seem like we are right there with hin because it is not polished. In this film sound becomes "roomative". It allows the audience to live the story from angles that are aimed particularly at them by ways of sound. Images depict the changes in his narrative when appearing fast and slow. This approach places viewers on a hot spot to remember what is important to him. Shards of truth or memory are represented by the staticy music at one point. Memory is represented as this unclear mystery that takes its own form and identity. The accent is very pleasing as well because it evolves into a written diary without any sentimentality. These sort of diaries are more of a watch and go. Mekas is not interested in forming a deep relationship with the audience. He is trying to enable a sensitivity that reacts to what has once existed and the need to go on.
