Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Montage editing ain't no Oreo cookie.

"Almost all of the work is based in montage, and the splice becomes a recurring visual event, especially in the films shot on 8mm and Super 8. While the splice - the joining of two pieces of film by tape or glue - is typically invisible by the time a film is projected, he foregrounds his splices, partly by necessity but also as a gesture that brings together a body of the film and the moms of the filmmaker, as well as the hand of this filmmaker and the spirit Of cinema," she thought that he thought. Whatever.