I have a love-hate relationship with the work of director Gaspar Noe. While I admire his technique and his willingness to dive into the lowest depths of hell in order to reveal difficult truths, his films, for the most part, are nearly unwatchable for many different reasons. Concerning his “willingness to dive into the lowest depths […]
I discovered the Quay Brothers when I caught a short film of theirs on the imported Blu-ray of Jan Svankmajer’s Alice. I’ve always been intrigued by stop-motion animation, however, I’d never seen anything quite like this before. It was totally unique. I knew that I had to seek out the rest of their work. Just […]
“You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes…” ~ James 4:14 I recently sat down to experience Godfrey Reggio’s latest collaboration with Philip Glass, entitled Visitors. It is a documentary, but not in the traditional sense of the word. It is an abstract collage composed of 74 slow-moving shots of […]
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