From: Joost Rekveld (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 18:22:20 PDT
Hi Rob,
three remarks:
- the more I think about it, the more I have to conclude that typical
hollywood movies are the most abstract movies I know: they don't seem
te refer to anything real at all..
- the word 'abstract' comes from 'abstrahere', something like
'pulling off', so it seems to refer to distilling some kind of
essence of what is supposed to be reality. I am not sure that
describes how most 'abstract filmmakers' see themselves.
- if you show a Fischinger film and you say 'hey, that's an abstract
film' or 'wow, that's a visual music film', then suddenly both terms
are very clear and unproblematic; the only problem is to explain what
'visual music' or 'abstract film' is to somebody who does not already
know what you are talking about...
whatever.
my 2c
Joost.
On 28 Apr, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Rob Gawthrop wrote:
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> What’s wrong with abstract?
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