Tag Archives: Critical Analysis

Tony Buba: Fictive Humor as a Reflexive Self-Critique

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-06
Tony Buba uses a number of innovative techniques in Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy that are quite remarkable for documentary film. He plays with the genre expectations of the audience by interweaving staged performances which could be considered fictional throughout the film. This is only one aspect of the many reflexive techniques he uses, [...]
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Soon Mi Yoo: The Modality of Meaning in Essayisticity

By jedypod | Published: 2006-02-28
Michael Renov’s discussion of the term essayistic in nonfiction autobiographical film and video lended a lucid and meaningful context to approach the cinema of Soon Mi Yoo. The essayistic is less concerned with the categorization and classification of genre, but rather to analyze the methods of the creation of meaning. “Rather than assemble a model [...]
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Sadie Benning: Pixel Persona

By jedypod | Published: 2006-02-21
Jed Smith – 2006-02-20 Notes for a Film W6 Sadie Benning The videos of Sadie Benning are an innovative anomaly that creates a unique language of expression. To some extent this innovation is dictated by her technological medium, the Pixelvision camera. As her working style evolved, it began to intersect with the precepts of the [...]
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Jay Rosenblatt: Masterpieces of Ascendency

By jedypod | Published: 2006-02-14
The films of Jay Rosenblatt are constructed so that they maintain universal appeal, and a sense of earnest sincerity, even while using found footage to construct the visual components of his work. He does this through carefully calculated choices in the construction of his films. These choices are evident in his usage of audio and [...]
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Richard Fung: Fungus Confessional

By jedypod | Published: 2006-02-14
2006-01-23 Jed Smith – Notes for a Film Week 2: Richard Fung The work of Richard Fung is much more in line with the idea of a confessional than the work of Su Friedrich. In Su Friedrich’s films, our sense of her identity is obfuscated and mediated through stylistic and aesthetic aspects of her artwork, [...]
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