[Frameworks] Creative crisis in experimental cinema

[kirstenl]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 6:15 PM Colinet andré <andre.colinet at telenet.be>
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> Nicely summarized mr. Camper.
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> Makes me want to see the movie again.
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> All the best.
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> André Colinet
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> *Objet :*Re: [Frameworks] Creative crisis in experimental cinema
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> Albert,
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> In the examples you give, "creative crisis" is  the plot. There is a film
> in which the cinematic style, the use of camera movement and composition
> and rhythm and editing and light, depict a first-person protagonist trying
> to enter the world of light, to dance with light, to become light. This is
> a striving perfect for cinematic exploration. In this film, the protagonist
> fails, leading inevitably to its "tragic" ending. This film grows in
> significance when you understand that not long after, in subsequent films,
> the same filmmaker succeeds at what he had depicted himself failing at.
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> This film is Stan Brakhage's *Anticipation of the Night*.
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> Its predecessors include Maya Deren's *Meshes of the Afternoon *and
> Kennith Anger's *Fireworks*.
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> Fred Camper
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