Nicely summarized mr. Camper. 
Makes me want to see the movie again.
All the best.
André Colinet

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De : Fred Camper
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Objet :Re: [Frameworks] Creative crisis in experimental cinema

Albert,

In the examples you give, "creative crisis" is  the plot. There is a film in 
which the cinematic style, the use of camera movement and composition and 
rhythm and editing and light, depict a first-person protagonist trying to enter 
the world of light, to dance with light, to become light. This is a striving 
perfect for cinematic exploration. In this film, the protagonist fails, leading 
inevitably to its "tragic" ending. This film grows in significance when you 
understand that not long after, in subsequent films, the same filmmaker 
succeeds at what he had depicted himself failing at.

This film is Stan Brakhage's Anticipation of the Night.

Its predecessors include Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon and Kennith 
Anger's Fireworks.

Fred Camper
Chicago

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