Rene Thoreau Bruckner
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Half wall, half door
Thanks, Dr. Schwartz, for this productive exposé on cinema's primal scene (one of them, anyway). How important is the film's framing, in your account? The composition limits the visibility of that outside world—where are they going?— but also bl ... -
distraction/duration
Karl, I love your reading of Apichatpong's style as working with two temporal registers, simultaneously. I want to see this as less of a dualism, more of a mixture: distraction and duration (i.e., personal and shared kinds of time, i.e., subjective a ... -
All great points/questions. I
All great points/questions. I would only add that the ghost-demon theme also raises the question of past mixing with present. As for whether we should differentiate between individual and collective experiences of time, one answer would be yes, but with a ... -
A challenge to digital cinema?
Thank you for the insightful post, Brian. I share your sadness about the dismal prospects for distribution and access regarding "untranslatable" films like Serene Velocity. It makes me fantasize about a future in which this kind of film is in fa ... -
cleanliness
Yes, the word "clean" does hold a particularly central place in the industry. It does seem suspiciously overused, as you suggest--as if it covers for the archaeological aspect to restoration, the unearthing of new details, which would imply a ce ...