David Holzman’s Diary

> On Feb 22, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Francisco Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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. 
>> 
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