From: db (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2007 - 14:35:37 PDT
Correction on the quote below:
Q (from the audience): What do you think of Michael Snow's films?
PK: (to Godard) Do you know his work...some of it is conceptual,
minimalist work....(laughter). I don't mean that in a pejorative
sense, some of it is quite extraordinary. I have been on foundation
committees where I voted vigorously to give him support. I think his
work has all sorts of potential interest and all sorts of interest
aesthetically. But he's really working in an area that isn't
theatrical film. He is really working more like a painter but in the
film medium. And his work is comparable to some of the work of the
minimalist painters..."
Godard didn't respond, or his response was excised from the transcript.
I post this correction because I think that the audience laughing at
Kael's characterization of Snow's work is an important indicator of
how "experimental/AG" is (or has been) so shallowly perceived that
the mere mention of minimal or conceptual elicits laughter from the
audience, and that Kael then feels the need to contextualize her
characterization as not "pejorative."
Ah, the early 80's...
db
On Jul 27, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Jim Carlile wrote:
> Found a great quote from Pauline Kael about Snow. She was asking
> Godard:
>
> "Do you know his work...some of it is conceptual, minimalist
> work....I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, some of it is
> quite extraordinary. I have been on foundation committees where I
> voted vigorously to give him support. I think his work has all
> sorts of potential interest and all sorts of interest
> aesthetically. But he's really working in an area that isn't
> theatrical film. He is really working more like a painter but in
> the film medium. And his work is comparable to some of the work of
> the minimalist painters..."
>
(laughter)
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