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K. Waste
Feb 27, 2014

MORAL:
To the vector belong the spoils.
This is good poo poo. I'm only 35 minutes in, but I was not expecting it to go in this direction. This is like the underground version of Jurassic Park.

And just because I'm not particularly familiar with Snow's work, but am very much into underground, experimental, and avant-garde cinema (which includes film but, as this great MotM entry demonstrates, also incorporates video art and new media), I'm gonna share a link to UbuWeb, which is this absolutely fantastic repository of works very much on the same wavelength (lol) as what you're getting here. Just in case anyone wants to go further down the rabbit hole.

http://www.ubu.com/film/

Turns out they also have three Michael Snow pieces and a documentary about him from 1996, http://www.ubu.com/film/snow.html

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K. Waste
Feb 27, 2014

MORAL:
To the vector belong the spoils.

TrixRabbi posted:

Yeah, Rabbits is a really good comparison.

And it is funny! I think I might have gotten too stuffy in the OP but I think as far as experimental filmmaking goes the movie has some really goofy moments. Like, it's enjoyable. Glad y'all are liking it, but yeah it's definitely not one to start at like 11:30 on a weeknight.

I had to watch it in parts, too, the fake-out end credits are a pretty good stop-start point, especially cause it seems to “reset” and get a lot slower and more subtle

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