GRGR(10) - uni-reversal pictures (was backwards/futureless look#2)

[David Morris]

GR is completely saturated with cinematography.  "The Musical" is constantly 
celebrated,  whole rooms full of characters spontaneously bursting into 
song.  Reality is very subverted in the Musical, which is I'm sure the very 
point.  I don't believe, though, that cinematography is centered on a 
particular character.  It is a genre likely to pop up at any moment.

But the reduction/abstraction of "reality" is a very prominent theme in VL, 
and I'm sure GR.  There is the primitive who objects to his image being 
taken by a camera.  The (?)FPS crew in VL was dedicated to "history," which 
they blindly thought could be captured on film.  Retro-styling is so popular 
today.  "That 70's Show" has informed many more than "Gimme Shelter."

The connection of "Recording" to "Reversal" is not direct (IMHO), but it is 
there.  "Replay" and "rewind"  may lead to "reverse direction," but to 
believe THAT "reality" must involve massive drugs, which may also be the 
point...

David Morris


>From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
>
>"I didn't know the cure for the disease of images. All I knew was how to
>write. But I believed in the magic and healing power of words, and of
>stories."
>
>      - gene
>
>  from wim wenders'
>
>"until the end of the world"
>Film reduces--and Katje looking with the
>pleasure of the cameraman's eye is a good example--the
>reality outside the self. Film perverts what it seeks to
>preserve, record, recount, REVERSE.
>                                                      - terrence
>Could this be the goal of Their regression therapy? To bring him back to
>Their side of the border?  - david
>
>i'm posting all this because it reminds me of a scene in "until the end of
>the world". after being addicted to images of her own dreams one character 
>is
>brought back to reality by another character...a novelist..who makes her 
>read
>his take on the whole affair. after seeing herself recontextualized she 
>snaps
>out of her near catatonic state.
>

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