Random Thoughts

The Man From London. Béla Tarr. 2007.

Somehow, I’ve never seen any films by Béla Tarr before. And if I squint a bit, I could easily see this as being a French & Saunders parody of Bergman or Tarkovski. If it had moved slightly faster and had more women in it. So I have no idea what it is, but I think it’s pretty spiffy, anyway.

I mean.

I may be wrong. I lost my concentration after a while and couldn’t really say what this film was about. But it looks plenty purdy.

I may be a work of total genius! I don’t know! Please excuse the following die:

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Faceless. Manu Luksch. 2007.

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Strange Culture. Lynn Hershman-Leeson. 2007.

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Sleepwalkers. Doug Aitken. 2007.

This art documentation video can be found on Youtube.

I wanna visit New York again soon, anyway.

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Galápagos. BBC. 2006.

I haven’t really watched a nature documentary since I was a teenager or something. I always feel that documentaries just waste my preciouses time. “Give me a ten sentence summary! I mean five! Stat!”

But this is rather brilliant. It’s all slo-mo/time lapse hi-def video (especially on Blu-Ray), with fake foley sounds, presumably fake “story lines” for the animals, and Tilda Swinton narrating. BBC knows what they’re doing. They’ve got this genre down pat.

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