Sounds like a fascinating film, Barry. Also, your takes, those other
voices....
Doug
On 30-Nov-05, at 10:08 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> VISIONS OF EUROPE
>
> [via Lars von Trier]
> [“A tag in each ear secures a life-long identity.”]
>
> I no longer dream of Europe.
> Suddenly it was gone. So what?
> I no longer kn[o][e]w it.
> Off the misery, on the go, on the lookout . . .
> Nobody would say such nonsense. Now tell me the truth.
> Stuffed the squashed grapes into a vat.
>
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 11-30-05 (11:58 PM)
>
>
> The Danish film director Lars von Trier commissioned one director from
> each
> of the 25 countries constituting the European Union to articulate “a
> personal vision of current or future life in the EU” within a film of
> no
> longer than five minutes. Then he gathered together and ordered what
> had
> been contributed into an omnibus production of his Zentropa
> Entertainment.
> Though I remember viewing films made up of sections from perhaps as
> many as
> 6 directors, I was startled when I first learned of the extent of the
> multi-
> voicing in “Visions of Europe” and eagerly looked forward to the
> screening. Whether Lars von Trier’s compositional strategy would
> succeed
> in organizing disparate segments loomed larger for me than whether I
> could
> carve a piece of writing out of it. In fact, the film did work for me.
> Also, I was able to quarry 9 lines from the first few sections before
> being
> overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of voices represented. Those 9 lines
> were edited into 6, while 2 voices (neither of them mine) emerge from 4
> sources.
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
|