. Speaking as
> an artist I'd say it's
> tremendously exciting and at the same time quite
> daunting. It's exciting
> because there are such extraordinary possibilities
> now available to just
> about anyone for construction and manipulation of
> image sequences. It's
> daunting because, though the promise is great, the
> possibilities are still
> to be discovered, dug out. It's very difficult to
> imagine something that
> doesn't exist, and that leaves us, as far as I can
> see, with
> experimentation. I can't think of any way, other
> then through straight up
> crazy experimentation, and the basic following of
> the nose, to unpack this.
> We've been so saturated with moving images, almost
> all of them making use
> of the same narrative/dramatic conventions, that
> we've really ingested that
> language, those so well defined grammatical rules.
> Now that there's an
> opportunity to do something else those rules act as
> a bit of a
> straightjacket on the imagination. Even the work of
> the experimenters, the
> avant garde film types, is of limited use, as they
> were themselves limited
> by what film, and their budgets, could do.
I think your right, DVD could open whole new methods
for making films. The simple fact you can watch any
scene of the film at any time and in any sequence is a
massive change in how the viewer takes in the film,
and if the form changes does the content also change?
It appeared to me at first that not following the
continuity originally intended by the director would
take away from the unity and meaning of the film. But,
actually I found that viewing a film like this does
not take away from the film but adds to it. Now the
director will not only have to think about how to
arrange the continuity of the film but how everyone
else might like to arrange it. It moves further
towards inter-subjective intentionality.
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