From: w martin (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 06:17:37 PST
How about Slacker?
On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:09, marco poloni <email suppressed>
wrote:
> You are right. How come I did not think of good old Bresson. Thanks
> a lot, Marco
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> From: Tom B Whiteside
> Sent: Jan 12, 2009 2:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: daisy chain
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> The most celebrated of this ilk would be Bresson's "L'argent."
> Shrewd editing, indeed.
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> - Whiteside North Carolina
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> Hello everyone,
> 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 ano
> ther person, and so on. The links between people could be sites or o
> bjects. 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 coul
> d be transitional objects like the famous post-it-sized pizzini mafi
> osi 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 genera
> te 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 e
> xperimet 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 four
> th one, and so forth...
> Thank you for any feedback!
> Best,
> Marco
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