Re: Gabriel by Agnes Martin

From: Fred Camper (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 15:07:30 PDT


Brakhage has several "cat films," made at different points of his career
-- "Nightcats," "Pasht," and "Max." They are all different, but none
have the very conventional cinemtography and editing of "Gabriel." I
don't see any comparison to Brakhage at all. The editing of "Window
Water Baby Moving" is highly original and pretty complex. Of course,
there also might be more to "Gabriel" than I got on one viewing, and of
course someone who loves Martin's paintings should see it -- that's why
I did, and found it interesting to think I was seeing images of things
that inspired those paintings. But that does not a good film make. And I
posted also partly in case the only way to see it was a $90 bootleg DVD.

I am a huge defender of many of the masterpieces of classical Hollywood,
as will also be apparent from a look at my site. If the only way we have
of learning about each other is through personal insults, then
FlameJerks is worthy of its nickname.

Fred Camper
Chicago

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