Everyday views transformed into abstract shape, the window of the speeding train as the camera into the world, yes, the aesthetic preoccupations about 'a new vision' that, no doubt, must be worrying young filmmakers fresh out of Brakhage, with a penchant for daring experiment and for ushering cinema into a new language. Now and then, lights flash in the evening sky.
The thing is, none of this matters. It's not even a particularly inspiring experiment - it stirs nothing, points at no inroads, is not the metaphor of an intelligent notion. It is a the seeing camera, such as you and I have held now and then but didn't record our sketch.
I would say skip to something that matters or has potential to change your life, but it's so short and probably not going to cost you any money, that you might as well see it if you come across.
The thing is, none of this matters. It's not even a particularly inspiring experiment - it stirs nothing, points at no inroads, is not the metaphor of an intelligent notion. It is a the seeing camera, such as you and I have held now and then but didn't record our sketch.
I would say skip to something that matters or has potential to change your life, but it's so short and probably not going to cost you any money, that you might as well see it if you come across.
