Re: Question: What would be a "perfect" film/video?

From: Matt Teichman (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 20:00:20 PST


tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's term "messterpiece" comes to mind...

>There's a recognizable shot of
>trees in Brakhage's "The Text of Light," a rarity in that film, that has
>never completely worked for me. It's a few seconds in 70 minutes, and
>it's interesting in that it sets the other shots off in a certain way,
>and also in the way it shows one of Brakhage's aspirations for the film.
>But it's not "perfect" the way the rest of the film seems to be. In
>fact, it's messy. And there's something to be said for messes too.
>
>Fred Camper
>Chicago

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