Barry very snappish !!
Cheers P
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Subject: Snap That Walk
AIMLESS WALK (1930)
via Alexandr Hackenschmied
Focus: feet (not fetishized as in L'Age d'Or).
Elevated,
finally, the standing observer
on train and then off, running
where to
disappear down stairs.
Camera down / stares
overhead. Bank/water.
Stops to lean on bridge over exotic pattern
imposed on body
of water.
Then, fishing, solo/joined.
Shot lying alone in field, smoking. Joined.
Walking on water as if ceiling suspended.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 8-8-07 (10:43 AM)
Written during my first viewing of this silent film without
intertitles, billed as the "first Czech avant-garde film", but
not as the first work by a filmmaker now best known for
his collaboration with Maya Deren on "Meshes of the Afternoon"
(under the name she wished him to assume, "Sasha Hammid").
After four revisions I counted the number of lines and was surprised
to discover a sonnet, of the 6/8 variety. I certainly didn't revise
towards such a final result. Nor was I able to place the director in film
history until writing this note; I went to the screening and trusted my
instincts/memory. The writing process felt different as well: where did
the words come from?
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