SOME daisy chain EXAMPLES

From: JEFFREY PAULL (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 06:05:48 PST


"La Ronde", Max Ophuls (a necklace gets passed from husband to mistress, to . . . . til it finally gets back to the wife.)
"Invitation to the Dance", Gene Kelly, part of an all-dance movie about the same necklace

JP

On Mon 12/01/09 08:33 , marco poloni email suppressed sent:
> Hello everyone,
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> I am doing research and pre-production work on a film project on Mafia in
> South Italy, 16mm, no actors. This was the reason of my recent post about
> tinting B&W footage as this could be an option for some scenes.
> One of the forms the work could take is that of a “daisy chain” of
> sorts: follow one person in the street then move on following another
> person, and so on. The links between people could be sites or objects. For
> instance, person A is followed until he enters a bar. We then follow person
> B as soon as he exits the same bar. Objects could be transitional objects
> like the famous post-it-sized pizzini mafiosi use to communicate, even if
> we do not see them. Suggestion might be enough. In B&W and with shrewd
> editing, I suppose one can generate the suggestion, even if for a
> split-second, that the same person is being followed. I have done this in
> photography and now want to experimet with film.
> I was wondering what pedigree this idea has. I know of no film that
> systematically exploits this device, or uses it as an editing strategy,
> apart from Linklater's “Slacker” movie, in which one or more characters
> are followed until they meet a third one, upon which the action shifts to
> this third person until he or she meets a fourth one, and so forth...
> Thank you for any feedback!
>
> Best,
>
> Marco
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