from the Filmmaker’s Coop Catalog: (description seems laden with Coyote-esque obfuscation, and I wrote it…)
Robert Harris COYOTE (1997) DVD NTSC, color, 17:07 min Genre: Documentary, Experimental Keywords: Ethnic/Multicultural COYOTE is an invocation of the many shady, shifting forms of Coyote, wide dog, Trickster, and smuggler, told in a style that mimics his multifarious shape. COYOTE abandons unified visual style. The narrative is fractured, a blend of documentary and fiction, contradictory voices, myths, and lies. Through a discontinuity between images, between image and text, between textual voices; through a clash of human and non-human voices, fixed meaning is undermined. Contradiction, displacement and disruption force the viewer's participation. Text and image drift in and out of moments of relative, subjective synchronicity. A reading ascribed to a given image will dissolve with the change of accompanying text. As meaning becomes contingent on viewer and context, authorship shifts from video-maker to collective process. COYOTE is an accumulated cacophony of evidence fragments where meanings coagulate in the resonant harmonics of the various voices. On Feb 21, 2017, at 8:49 PM, Morgan Hoyle-Combs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > Does anyone know of any film (essay/diary/doc) where lying is a theme or the > main focus? I wondered if there was anything that ran among these lines: > > 1. The audience is well aware that the narrator/filmmaker is lying to them > > 2. The audience does not know whether or not the narrator/filmmaker lying to > them. It's left ambiguous. > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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