This is good. I always appreciate Mary Helena Clark's work but I don't think about it a lot. It's simultaneously more complicated and more simpler than it appears at first glance, but it's always rewarding and satisfying in its heterogeneity of forms. More than the casual essay film that dominated TIFF the last few years, I moreso appreciate the formally heterogenous works that are popping up this year; they feel more like a truly contemporary use of cinema than the formerly dominant essays, which felt less like they were truly concerned with the medium of cinema than they were concerned with what it was they were saying (i.e., they could exist in modes other than cinema).

Similarly, this film makes use of textual language in a more effective way than Hopinka's films, where it's actually directly responsive to what's on screen, instead of merely allowing the screen to serve as backdrop for a text.

Film #72 of my 2018 MUBI Viewings

*****

Meh.

Not my bag.

Experimental filmmaking is very hit and miss for me.
Mostly miss after miss.

I keep trying though.

wHaT

My parents have been using a leafblower outside for the last fifteen minutes and I thought that the noise it made was a part of this.

This is just one of those artsy things on Mubi that I don’t particularly care about or have any interest in watching, but it’s short and free so why not give it a shot?

Sounds are pretty neat

Not particularly interesting to look at or listen to.

Thanks Mubi

Sick cinematic short to watch with my Beats by Dre headphones!

Screeching, scratching, crackling and popping; waves, stones, palm trees, and statues. Discordant sound and imagery inexplicably comes together and forms a cohesive something, incomprehensible but felt.

Despite a few clever and gripping sensory pairings, this clumsy assemblage cries out for a collaborator to curate and sequence the artist’s material, much of which veers off its thematic course with pretentious abstractions alongside too-direct communications. A more consistent collage of sounds and images could have been fascinating and evocative, but formally this film is all over the place.

Film #72 of my 2018 MUBI Viewings

*****

Meh.

Not my bag.

Experimental filmmaking is very hit and miss for me.
Mostly miss after miss.

I keep trying though.

The power of suggestion, whether it's aural or visual, changes our perception of its complementary senses.

wHaT

Wala ako idea bakit 4 stars. Pero feeling 4 stars

Some nice shots.

Nota: evitar visitar a seção de curtas do Festival de Cinema de Nova Iorque.

cinema is slippery.both deceitful and unifying.

The CGI chair tripped me out but not as much as the realization that the parts that people touch don’t become polished, shiny, different, tarnished- those are the parts preserved from the original rendering due to biological upkeep. Fascinating. Watched on MUBI

My parents have been using a leafblower outside for the last fifteen minutes and I thought that the noise it made was a part of this.

This is just one of those artsy things on Mubi that I don’t particularly care about or have any interest in watching, but it’s short and free so why not give it a shot?

Sounds are pretty neat

I really enjoyed the way that the piece works with sound, image, and text, or the lack of them.
I also loved the mixture between 16mm footage, digital video, and CG very unique.