Tag Archives: Notes About Films
Placeholder for Alejandro Jodorowsky
Since I don’t have much time to actually write posts on my blog at this current point in time, I am going to make a couple placeholders for posts which will be coming in the future. The first of these placeholders is entitled “Placeholder for Alejandro Jodorowsky.” When this epic post is completed, it will [...]
Film Journal: La Jetée
Here are some more thoughts about the cinematic endeavors I have been resting my eyes upon. Inside are lengthy thoughts and discussions about the movie La Jetée, by Chris Marker.
Film Journal Entries
For my work in SOS: Media I will be keeping a film journal, detailing reactions and notes and impressions of films that I watch during the quarter. Following is all that I’ve written and watched so far. Please keep in mind that these have not been re-written and cleaned up, and thus consider the text [...]
Tony Buba: Fictive Humor as a Reflexive Self-Critique
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
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
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
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
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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Su Friedrich: Subjective Diegesis Through Disjunct Images and Text
Notes for a Film: Week 1 Jed Smith – Mediaworks 2006 One of the most striking things about Su Friedrich’s work is her stylistic innovation of separating the semantic and visual components of her films in the creation of meaning. This characteristic is common to all of her films which I have seen, though it [...]
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A Placeholder: Verhoeven vs. Noe