Re: experimental film vs narrative film

From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 11:28:54 PDT


the idea that the labels reflect reality w/out obliqueness - skew
is a trick within the 'power' of word

commercial has experiment
if you don't know this fact here is a link
to a great dvd series

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009WIEFW/ref=pd_sim_d_1/102-5068585-8773766?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

this one of the series on
director stéphane sednaoui
is and has been for years experimental -
there are many

i prefer the use of 'underground'
(romantic - like seed and scavenger rat)
'experimental' is kinda boring/limited/pointed

one just need look at '...potemkin'
to know it's not a football game
no 'vs.'
(good vs. evil shadow)

perhaps the best 'experiment' can offer up -

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
beckett

c

On 4/25/06, Sam Wells <email suppressed> wrote:
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> There's as much amazing creativity possible
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> when one works within formal boundaries as when one breaks them open. To
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> deny this is like saying Just because a poem is a sonnet it must be
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> worthless, and I still find Shakespeare unbelieveably beautiful and a
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> Bergman narrative film as philosophically and aesthetically rich as
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> anything in the experimental canon. For me, this is important, since I am
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> as deeply interested in the possibilities of classical narrative as I am
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> in the wonders of pushing the edge of vision.
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> Dana
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> Yes, but I would not / do not restrict "narrative" to classical film
> construction of same...
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> -Sam
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