Re: Teaching film [Was: Experimental films showing at various Universities]

From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2008 - 16:03:16 PST


It's interesting to me that there is this sense that "getting" avant-garde film requires "intellect" or some kind of esoteric knowledge. Dare I say it but there is enough in, to use Fred's example, a Brkahage film

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Fred Camper <email suppressed> wrote:

> From: Fred Camper <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Teaching film [Was: Experimental films showing at various Universities]
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 11:54 AM
> Just to clarify:
>
> I think that having a great aesthetic understanding of
> avant-garde film, or any film, does not require being an
> "intellectual," or scoring well on tests, or
> having a "high intellectual level." I truly think
> that just about *anyone* can "get" Brakhage, if
> they care enough to try to do so. And lathe operation is as
> honorable as any other profession, and may well be more
> demanding than most. I clarify because I realized right
> after posting that what I wrote about the declining
> intellectual level of college students really sounded wrong,
> on rereading. What I really should have written is something
> like, "Some students are less likely to be interested
> in a liberal arts education in the traditional sense of
> expanding and freeing one's mind, and hence, less likely
> to be interested in, for example, avant-garde film."
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
>
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