I agree, all films lie. Charade staring Archibald Leach. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Kreines <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]>: > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > [email protected] > kinetta.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Salise Hughes Artist, Filmmaker, Armchair Anthropologist http://salisehughes.blogspot.com https://vimeo.com/user1421998
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