This made me think of the scene in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, where the guy's is walking past the giant ads, it's half way through this clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Wx-sJ-dLk
Amanda ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:13:30 -0600 > Subject: [Frameworks] walking through the world > Thanks, everyone, for the quick responses. I can see I need to be more > specific. > > First, the clip must be in a readily available film, which most likely > means a narrative feature (but not necessarily). If it’s not a well known > film, I need a link to it. > > Second, it will ideally have a “mythic” quality. “Mr. Smith Goes to > Washington” comes to mind, even though the “world” he walks through is only > Washington, D.C. Again, that quality is ideal but not essential. > > Another ideal is a montage-like structure in which we periodically see the > protagonist gazing at the world through which he moves—looking up at > skyscrapers or mountain peaks, for example, or just “looking around” at the > environment out of curiosity. > > There are hundreds of such scenes, and I probably have them in my library, > but “memory” is something that I remember I once had. > > This is for my Kuchar project, so the wayfarer must be male. > > Thanks again dear hive-mind. > -- IMAA: Perspectives - Analogue Film Gathering <http://www.imaa.ca/spa-day-for-filmmakers-battling-exhaustion-in-the-analogue-film-community/> https://vimeo.com/amandat http://www.irisfilmcollective.com
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