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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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