[Frameworks] films that consider the idea of a super hero

[malgosia askanas]

But can't there be undependent films that deal with cultural artifacts?  For example, can't you imagine an undependent film that's a meditation of some kind on the Sagrada Familia?

-m


At 2:17 PM -0500 7/27/11, Fred Camper wrote:
>Quoting Bryan Konefsky <bryank at unm.edu>:
>
>> Hi all - I was recently asked to curate a program of
>> un-dependent cinema that in some way considers the concept
>> of the super hero....
>
>Am I the only one who sees a bit of an oxymoron here? Sorry to be 
>playing the cranky role, but, while I think any subject can produce a 
>great film, it seems to me that if what is meant is comic book super 
>hero then such films are not "undependent."
>
>If that is *not* the only thing that is meant, then, obviously, "The 
>Art of Vision" / "Dog Star Man," which, rather beautifully, is about 
>the failure of "hero."
>
>Fred Camper
>Chicago
>