NH19: Silence of Flightless Birds
I hold to the principle that if I start watching a movie, I watch it to the end, so I feel a certain obligation to explain why I actually left Bird Talk.
I hold to the principle that if I start watching a movie, I watch it to the end, so I feel a certain obligation to explain why I actually left Bird Talk.
Tony becomes Shirley’s driver and goes with him on tour of the American South. The real purpose of a virtuoso who lives alone above Carnegie Hall is not to earn money, but to contribute to the slow process of the racial equation in places where it is most difficult.
Nicole Vögele in her neomodernictic in spirit documentary is not looking for a sensation. The camera will not find itself where rich nightlife takes place, where colorful clubs are bursting of crowds, nor will it follow dark alleys in an attempt to find a way into the criminal underworld. The director heads her gaze towards an unattractive job at a small night diner.
Lucrecia Martel tells a brilliant tale of Zama, Spanish senior official managing a small coastal colony located on the Atlantic, away from beaten trade routes and European civilization.
Bill Morrison, known for his ability to create sensitive, poetic found footage images, has produced an unique film. And not only because of the formula – Dawson City: Frozen Time is a picture composed almost exclusively of archival materials from the beginning of the 20th century, miraculously unearthed in Dawson.
Imagine a world taken alive from Cormac McCarthy’s prose. An isolated, strange, disturbing world in which you can feel the atmosphere of the end of the road – a bit apocalyptic, a bit of being “on the other side”, in magical space, a bit of stubborn, desperate survival in a gloomy, cruel, lonely poverty. It is a world in which the past blends with the present, in which the tragedy likes to be reminded of and relived again – like a return to alcohol addiction.