Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise?? I don't consider it boring, but my
students sure do. Somewhere Jean Mitry wrote that with L'aventurra
Antonioni had gone as
far as anyone could with an aesthetic of boredom -- And I'd agree
with the Jarmusch suggestion.
Anyways, boring in this context is a term that might be best
circumscribed as "intellectual" Fluxus just-for-fun films.
I would want to say that not only are "mirror" or "werckmeister
harmonies" or *the complete works of brakhage* or *eloge d'amour* or
*insert 'boring' art movie of your choice* not boring to anyone whose
brain has not been terminally dulled by the market and its
effective cheerleaders/apologists in postmodernism , they are
*better* and more worthy of our attention than 99% of mainstream
commercial cinema & indeed represent something to which one should
aspire bot morally and aesthetically.
Michael Szpakowski can you say why you’re interested in the
aesthetics of boredom?
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