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Thanks, Doug. In this case, it's what I saw because I was encountering the Kyrgyz language for the first time and had to mine the subtitles. The director wrote the screenplay with a collaborator, so I am catching voices which he created. Since Kyrgyzstan officially selected this film for competition within the Academy Award, one could assume that one of the best translators subtitled it, but I still found myself editing the lines netted by the acrostic somewhat severely. I decided to see this particular film in part because I found myself merely 1.5 miles away from where it was to be shown (the Freer Gallery of Art) after witnessing a talk by Ann Hamilton at the National Gallery of Art. I took a much more casual approach towards writing within the film screening than I did for the writing I did while Ann Hamilton was talking. Revising the original draft of LIGHT THIEF became a warm-up for the more demanding work required by my two simultaneous drafts of SAY, ANN HAMILTON. Perhaps you've seen Alden Nowlan's A SENSE OF POETRY (1975, 18 minutes) which I have a chance to catch at the NGA tomorrow while I'm already in the immediate area for the National Book Festival? Barry On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:21:23 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Ir's what you hear, Barry, how you catch what will eventually fit. > >As someone who doesn't get out to many films, I also admire that aspect: that you get to see so many special ones; or should I say, 'useful' ones, for the process� > >Doug >On 2011-09-21, at 6:53 AM, Barry Alpert wrote: > >> LIGHT THIEF >> >> via Aktan Arym Kubat >> >> >> Light in my pocket. >> I�ll go complain to your superiors. >> Getting ready for the tournament. >> How is my revolutionary >> to move? >> >> Talking nonsense >> has to strike you >> if you had tried, >> elected >> foolish . . . >> >> >> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 10/21/11 (8:51 AM) >> >> Initially drafted while watching the fifth feature film directed by Kyrgyzstan's leading filmmaker, who also casts himself in the lead role, and manages the whole enterprise with charm. The Global Lens Initiative decided to screen this film in 25 cities across North America, arranging for venues such as MOMA in NYC and the Toronto International Film Festival, along with 8 other films, including works made in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, and Uruguay. Here's a link to the trailer: >> >> http://catalogue.globalfilm.org/global-lens-collection/global-lens-2011/the-light-thief-svet-ake.html >> > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] >[log in to unmask] > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > >Latest books: >Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >Wednesdays' >http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > >People say they have to express their emotions. >I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach >you to express your emotions; >it teaches you how to see. > > Berenice Abbott