it may be that all films lie. that is what make them such fun. 2017-02-22 14:31 GMT-04:00 lagonaboba <[email protected]>:
> from the Filmmaker’s Coop Catalog: (description seems laden with > Coyote-esque obfuscation, and I wrote it…) > > Robert Harris > <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_author=1035> > > *COYOTE *(1997 > <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_year=1997>) DVD > NTSC, color, 17:07 min > > Genre: Documentary > <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_documentary> > , Experimental > <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_experimental> > > Keywords: Ethnic/Multicultural > <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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