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This
was probably the most unique film that I've reviewed yet;
it also presented a very difficult challenge, since it
doesn't fall into our traditional review categories. Still,
it was an interesting film to watch. The combination of
the manipulated film stock and the background music made
for a very compelling film. In a way, it reminded me of
1923's infamous Man Ray film, "Le Retour à
la Raison", which also utilized shapes and copies
to make fascinating patterns, even though more traditional
photography was incorporated in that avant-garde classic.
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This
film was very visually fascinating; it made me think of
abstract art translated onto film, since most of the visuals
were non-representational. The most interesting part of
these images was the overall dreamlike quality of the
film.
At
the beginning of the film, I could see some faint ghost
images on the film that looked like people walking and
moving around. I really liked this part - mainly since
I prefer representational art to abstract - but these
images had a jumpy quality of very old film footage, and
the overexposure gives it a very beautiful ethereal quality.
Which, incidentally, matches the background music very
well.
Those
ghost images later faded out and the visuals become more
abstract, looking like scratches on the film. At this
point, the editing cuts in the film quicken, which matches
well with the strange scratches. However, it also looks
out of place compared to the earlier, smoother segments
of the film, and seems too rough to match the background
music.
