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Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen 1983
The way this has impacted/informed how I approach my own work on such a fundamental level,, forever in her debt
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Children of the Sea 2019
Sora is such a little bitch (affectionate)
Such beautiful animation, every frame. Really wonderful motion and blended use of 3D. Also incredibly fun and imaginative storytelling, some other reviews are ragging on it for that but imo it was super refreshing and captivating. I think sometimes you need to approach works via a different mode of understanding, or at least I feel like I engaged with this differently than I have with some other films and my experience with it…
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A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade) 2013
Really enjoying watching these shorts. Interesting to see how she collapses time and duration, creating ghosts that are also entirely not ghosts. It’s a real past in 1924 that becomes a transposed and altered past by Manna to 1942, that from the perspective of 2013 when the photo was recreated and the short film made ironically also unknowingly embodied an implication of a lost past future. The durational moments help bring this alive while concretizing this into real people, inscribing…
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