I liked it too, Barry
cutting (like film) ....
Doug
On 30-Mar-06, at 10:13 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> MY FILM ISN’T LIKE MEDITATION
>
> [via Abigail Child’s TO AND NO FRO]
>
>
> More words into the film,
> you two
>
> friends, we’ll have a bite.
> I thought moving the image>>
> language is not working.
> Many reasons to disrupt syntax
>
> in film and in writing
> says it didn’t even happen.
> Number
> to push a button and talk.
>
> Lives (who benefits when the
> illusion machine doesn’t show you how it was made)
> killed me, in that movie at the very
> end, this was shot.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 3-30-06 (12:02 PM)
>
>
> Written out of the filmmaker’s informal verbal language following her
> screening of a five minute film done in collaboration with the Mexican
> poet
> Monica de la Torre, who chose a Mexican source, a 91 minute film made
> in
> that country in 1952 by Luis Bunuel entitled “A Woman Without Love”.
> Though there was what Abigail Child termed “intrigue in the
> subtitles”, our
> editing processes were dissimilar and I found myself admiring the
> variety
> of formally-innovative strategies by which English was added to the
> moving
> images on the screen rather than being able to quarry it for my
> own purposes. Her formal reading, which followed the less formal
> seminar,
> consisted of the presentation of two unpublished literary manuscripts
> and
> then a screening of the twelve minute film “Mirror World”, a
> collaboration
> with the poet Gary Sullivan who chose a 150 minute Bollywood film as
> their
> source. For more on Abigail Child, who has published four books of
> poetry
> and a prose book on the relationship between film and poetry, in
> addition
> to numerous films, I recommend visiting her homepage at:
>
> www.abigailchild.com.
>
>
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