September 03, 2002
Blind Light

IFC was running a short film called Blind Light. If you can find it, it's very much worth seeing. It has this slow, languid pacing. It almost seems to border on the introspective - a feeling which is helped along a great deal by the reminiscing narrator.

They keep shooting still images, or moving images in which the subject remains so still that it feels like a still image. There's something about the technique of it that is mesmerizing. It reminds me a bit of La Jette, a short film that I saw in college. They later remade it for an American audience and called it 12 Monkeys. Well, I guess not a remake so much as 12 Monkeys got A LOT of inspiration from La Jette.

It looks like La Jette is included on the DVD Short 2 - Dreams. I may have to pick that up. I might as well get 12 Monkeys while I'm at it.

Anyway, if you have the IFC channel, be on the look out for Blind Light. It's totally worth seeing. It is very slow though, so be prepared to be calm when you watch it.

Posted to Media - Movies on Tue, September 03 2002
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