A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to new angle, same characters and actions. Camerawork by Bud Wirtschafter.
In this radical meditation on image-making, Babette Mangolte puts the viewer of the film in a vantage similar to that of the photographer looking at her subject. This structural device reveals a series of studio portraits not as neutral observational exercises, but as a subtle accumulation of interpersonal tensions and meanderings. In the film’s second half, Mangolte captures s...
Featuring interviews with the likes of Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Robert Bresson and David Lynch, What is Cinema is documentarian Chuck Workman’s engrossing visual essay about mastery of cinematic form. Our world premiere will be followed by a live conversation with Workman.
A volleyball is rolled into the frame and comes to rest. Two legs in sneakers, seen from the knees down, enter the frame and stand beside it. Cut to new angle, same characters and actions.
Around a familiar theme – the breakup of a marriage – Yvonne Rainer constructs a wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womaniser. Sitting in a chair facing the camera, Jack Deller rambles on about women, whose visual absence runs through the entire film. On the soundtrack we hear their questions and comments, by turns enraged or laconic, both stressing and also subverting ...
几条重要线索交替进行。滚动的字幕记载了西德对政治犯的处置。片中有长时间的城市景观、巨石阵和柏林墙的俯瞰镜头，还可以瞥见在城市的街道上有一个男人和一个女人。在一连串精神分析的会议上，医生从一个女人变成一个男人最后变成一个孩子。我们听到一个年轻女孩在阅读一个青少年1950年代初期以来的日记，以及一个男人和一个女人在厨房里讨论西方的革命运动。中间穿插摄影机越过塞满东西的壁炉台，指涉着影片的其他地方，包括一堆意大利面。
