From: Sam Wells (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 16:28:29 PDT
> On this same note, I have not seen Other Wordly, but many other of
> Leslie Thorton's films.
Well I haven't either but you've pretty much given us the kind of
considered and specific reaction pretty much missing in this thread.
> However, Jacobs' beef was not that Gottheim was an exploitative
> westerner, but he objected more to the filming of religious rituals.
> It seemed to be a personal pet peeve against depicting religion.
> (Whether it is religious extremism he objects to or ALL religion, I am
> not sure.) Anyway, I thought the criticism was a bit off in left
> field, and what the film was achieving was left out of the discussion.
In one case fairly recently I was reluctant to film acts of Vietnamese
/ Buddhist prayer & ritual only to find myself asked to do so by the
participants, to memorialize. (Filming Vietnam and Vietnamese without
"depicting religion" in any way, you might as well leave the lens cap
on).
-Sam
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