most of Ken Jacobs films...

2019-12-12 12:15 GMT-04:00, Scott Dorsey <[email protected]>:
> First of all, this is a metafilm, some hollywood propaganda, and it is
> not meditative at all, but it is a thing that students should see in any
> introduction to film class:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhnFP1GWHI
>
> The youtube version looks terrible, if anyone knows of a better one I would
> love to see it.
>
> I guess I think of Jordan Belson's _Cycles_ as the kind of thing you are
> looking for.  Pennebaker's _Daybreak Express_ is a cool and beautiful film
> that starts slow, then becomes very upbeat and exciting, but then becomes
> slow and quiet again at the end.
>
> McLaren's _A Chairy Tale_ is kind of weird and might be a bit long for
> keeping students attention, but I think it makes a point about being
> loved and appreciated.
>
> Keaton's _The Railrodder_ is on youtube and it is in many ways a kind of
> slow and contemplative film.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o
> May require some explanation about swimming the atlantic and so forth.
>
> So many of the abstract films I can think of are anything but slow and
> contemplative...
> --scott
>
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