An Unrelated Post To Related Events

so i missed class on monday and missed the presentation...
this is because of the amazingly crazy snow storm that snowed us in and the fact that i got extremely sick on friday and have continued to be sick until this very night, although i am now back... so i'm basically useless when it comes to discussion this week, but posting this is better than nothing i guess...

Hey, Check Out That Weirdo With The Camera

D'est, I believe thats the title of the movie we watched on monday, seemed to me at times extremely dull and quiet, and at others interestingly dull and quiet. When I watched it, I realized that maybe the idea that the filmmaker was going for was to make the viewer feel like the person watching the world that he was filming. The eyes of onlookers at times seem to pierce through the screen and look directly at you, either curiously or accousingly or with no expression what so ever.

Extremely long to be making only that point, though, there's probably something I'm missing, but at that time of the morning I tend to miss alot.

On a side note, today is the day that esteemed gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson passed away, so, you should watch Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas or something cool like that...

Some Dreams Are Terrible Things To See (Sinister Visuals)

So, I've been kind of neglectful for my posts on this blog... a product of my worst bad habit, procrastination, which tends to hold me back in alot of my school work.
In response to this, I'll try to make this post as epic as possible.

So, the main film I'd like to discuss was one that we watched during last part of class. It was a close up of an eye, with a white spot that danced and moved around in frenetic, jarring ways. The soundtrack that accompanied it was equally unsettling. I believe the short was called "Everyday Nightmare" and I was definetly seeing why.

I kept cringing in my seat, wait for something terrible to happen that would completely disturb me and ruin my day. Although the end was almost anti-climactic, I still thouroughly enjoyed it its use of tone and sound to make it all the more chilling.

The director, that I thought about afterwards, was Chris Cunningham, and I related alot of what I felt during the first film to a music video that he directed for the techno band Aphex Twin, called Come To Daddy. It's use of soundtrack and imagery matches the aesthetic and premise of "Everyday Nightmare" in an almost literal sense.

Ways I Think An Experimental Film Can Be Narrative

When I think about narrative in something like experimental film, I don't always just consider what I'm watching on screen as the story. Instead, I wonder what the filmmaker was doing that led up to the filming of the movie as the story behind what I'm watching. I guess, the hidden motives behind the film are the story to me and it's almost more satisfying to have to use your head and think about what the artist was thinking, instead of just having a story spoon fed to you.

These films are important, I think, because its an excerise of pure artisticness with no reason to be done any way but exactly the way you want to. The fact that almost anyone can be a film artist comes out in the different experimental films of today and is the purest form of uniqueness in the film world.