BEAT CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE'S REVERSED AUDIO
My in cried I now
gang I left some thing my other could use.
Like I don't know why,
look I just want
the one megalomaniac doctor
to sever my emotional attachment.
Keep smiling
every populated moment of my life from now on.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 1-2-08 (8:22 PM)
Though I've heard about them for many years, I've never been able to see
the four films made by San Francisco poet Christopher Maclaine from 1953 to
1959. But someone just cracked the code of the soundtrack to his six
minute film "Beat", and I "treated" the transcript. Here's part of what
Stan Brakhage had to say about Christopher Maclaine, followed by a link to
Fred Camper's essay:
‘As one looks at his film Beat one sees more of the humour in his camera
movements. People are made to walk fast and look jerky in his films, and
this is intentional humour; he was not content to shoot at eight frames a
second – he skips frames so that people skip ridiculously in a way that
rhythmically captures their intrinsic self-centeredness… To me, Beat evokes
that era to a T – beautifully, precisely, wittily, and terrifyingly.’ –
Stan Brakhage
http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/Maclaine.html
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