I had intended to attempt to edit a poem out of that discussion of washing, certainly the highlight of Pedro Costa's bagatelle, when heavy snow on tree limbs turned out the lights for a very long time. Perhaps I'll try again this Wednesday.
Danielle Huillet is much more sympathetic than Jean-Marie Straub throughout Costa's full-length documentary "Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?"
Barry
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:03:37 +1100, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I also enjoyed the youtube out-take and especially the end, a
>highlight, with Danielle Huillet's discourse on washing (and women who
>wash - leave it hanging!).
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>On 20/01/2011, at 6:14 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>> STRAUB/HUILLET AT WORK ON VITTORINI�S SICILIA!
>>
>> via Pedro Costa
>>
>>
>> You�re serving stones in gravy.
>> I don�t trust your fanaticism.
>> Matter resists us / you can�t just cut anywhere.
>> I worked on my framing.
>>
>> Masterpieces which hold together because of the soup
>> impression--we resist verisimilitude.
>> Don�t start there-ing me!
>> There�s no there!
>>
>> Cutting film / cutting time;
>> you can�t turn your actors into statues.
>> I told him, �That�s a good take.
>> Do another for me.�
>>
>> Whether we should have a see-saw movement--it�s not chewing gum.
>> The cameraman already had an ax in his hand.
>>
>>
>>
>> STRAUB/HUILLET AT WORK ON KAFKA�S AMERIKA
>>
>> via Harun Farocki
>>
>>
>> If I had an apple I wouldn�t cross my arms
>> I�d like to feel a colon there
>> No pause just a hard caesura
>>
>> We�ll pull at it till it explodes
>> We must destroy all the pauses
>> They�ll only remain below the surface
>>
>> Perhaps speak in the movement
>> That would be the solution
>> This time don�t rush the word �photograph�
>> That was another new version
>> We have a rich harvest of the other version
>> We�ll have to take it apart
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 1-19-11 (2:11 PM)
>>
>> When I first registered that the National Gallery of Art would be
>> screening two documentaries by established filmmakers on the process
>> of composition of a collaborating couple of filmmakers, I hoped that
>> I might be able to produce a pair of doubly ekphrastic cine-poems.
>> Despite difficulty revising each intuitive initial draft, I'm happy
>> with the final product. The second poem first appeared as a snap on
>> 12-22-10, 3 days after I had witnessed the source for the first
>> poem, Pedro Costa's film "Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?"
>> Perhaps on another occasion I might publish them in reversed order,
>> but here I wanted to provide you first with a poem you hadn't
>> encountered previously, followed by its companion. Let me offer as
>> well a link to an out-take from Costa's film (with English
>> subtitles) which illuminates Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet's
>> relationship.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGDbXcNtaRM&feature=related
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