From: Sam Wells (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 11:00:26 PST
I wrote on another list that Jim Jennings' "Elements" was the most
perfect 6 minutes of film I saw in 2003, so I should repeat that...
But I don't have a perfect definition of Perfect.
If I wanted to cite a "perfect" Stan Brakhage film it would be "Visions
in Meditation 3 Plato's Cave" but maybe that's just my favorite, I
don't know if I need to have a favorite...
I would, though, pick a photographed SB film before a hand painted one,
beautiful as many of them are, but this is because I consider
photography at its deepest level to be a more daring break with all the
visual art preceding its invention and paradoxically, perhaps, the
deepest way to engage that....
I always thought the upsetting of the horse-drawn apple cart in "Ivan's
Childhood/My Name is Ivan" (Tarkovsky) is some kind of perfect shot....
-Sam Wells
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