Convicted Cinephile
FoxHound#0796
8,171 people have marked this film as “watched” on letterboxd as I write this. Is that a lot? It seems like it to me, and it spins me in circles that most everyone that has watched the entirety of this film has let it guide their thoughts down new paths. Some towards the American avant-garde and beyond; towards New York City, Anthology Film Archives, and The Film-Maker’s Coop; towards love, marriage, grief. The paths that this movie has sent me…
Eleven Skies
On July 1st 2021 I watched this film at Light Industry in Brooklyn, NY. About a month prior I read Ten Skies by Erika Balsom in one day, I had never seen the movie until July 1st. In the following 13 parts I would like to tell you why this is my favorite film of all time, and it’s not even close.
Prologue
I recently read an Antonioni interview where the interviewer described his day up to the…
Wilson’s film is a stunning visual manipulation of light, akin to Brakhage’s The Text of Light (1974) in its exploration of shapes in shadows. Wilson merges surrounding nature with the spectacle of light fading and flickering, creating paths and shapes with darkness, allowing other images to fade in and out, superimpose, or contain all of these effects all at once. Light in this film is constantly changing in new ways, and the images created via the perceived motion of nature…
This is my film! Shot on 16mm with my bolex and edited digitally. Make sure to check the video description too!