intriguing cheers P not sure that I understand exactly !!
On 12/04/2017 17:19, Barry Alpert wrote:
> My intended snapshot this week awaits a screening tomorrow of "The Devil's Mistress", the latest film by the Czech director Filip Renc, about whom I was able to write the following during & after viewing his earlier "Guard #47":
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> GUARD #47
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> via Filip Renc
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> Get a stretcher,
> understand? Nothing!
> A letter--
> read it:
> disability after they examine you.
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> I went to see this recent Czech film largely because I was intrigued by the performative possibilities of a character who loses his hearing and later regains it (but doesn't tell those who assume he's still deaf). At the last moment I decided to bring into the theatre some paper, just in case. "Number" and "forty seven" prove to be minor aspects of the film, but "guard" resonates in at least three ways. And then the unexpected dramatization of the administration of the disability issue circa 1920 struck me. I wrote down enough lines for an acrostic rather quickly and let myself enjoy a complex and beautiful film from the appropriate visual position of front-row center.
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> "Sharp, Barry. I like the way you manage to both reflect a film, but
> get something that doesnt demand we know it . . ." Douglas Barbour
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> Thanks, Doug. I had hoped this poem could stand on its own, but wasn't certain it did so. If I were to publish it without the title and inscription but within a disability studies context, I think it might work for readers who took the speaker of the first two lines as a commander of an emergency medical team while assuming the last three lines were spoken by a hospital administrator. When I initially registered the personal resonance, I remember saying to myself, "It's a tough little work."
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> Here's a link to the Wash DC manifestation of this year's "Czech That Film" festival, which I'm looking forward to attending in its entirety today & tomorrow. Quite manageable, unlike most film festivals--which initially overwhelm quantitatively. http://www.theavalon.org/programs/czech-film-festival/
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