[Frameworks] Stephen Broomer's Potamkin

[Salise Hughes]

Dear Frameworkers in the Seattle area,
EXcinema is screening Potamkin by Stephen Broomer Tuesday at Grand Illusion
Cinema.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to
starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film
critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would
simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the
equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is
assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an
impression of erupting consciousness.

At the Odessa steps, trampling gives breath to the child. The bullet
miraculously reforms the face. The Cossacks march backwards, retreating
unseen into their nothing, the unfired rounds of their rifles restored to
their menacing potential. Feet tread backward up the steps as the steps
themselves collapse in splintering emulsion. The carriage is set upright.

Trailer   https://vimeo.com/205609042 <https://vimeo.com/205609042>


-- 
Salise Hughes
Artist, Filmmaker, Armchair Anthropologist

http://salisehughes.blogspot.com
https://vimeo.com/user1421998
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