Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Patterson & Bailey

The Cage, Patterson being from the West Coast and having a background with Hollywood work used The Cage successfully I feel to let those who might not be exposed to the work going on on the East Coast see what was happening in film. He did a great job incorporating all the works of the other artists in his film to make a film that summed up so many different ideas and techniques of the artists already doing Avant Gard. The one thing I remember most from The Cage is the eye falling and the view from the eye, it was clever and unexpected.
I really enjoyed Baily's work, I'm a nature lover and enjoy documentaries and felt the film had a documentary feeling, telling the story of how people were making tracks into the wilderness with the train. He was ahead of the industry in pointing out social awareness as to what humans were doing to invade nature. He did a great job with the blue tint in making the ocean more beautiful than it already is and the quick cut to the contrast of the deep red of the fish blood. Castor St. reminded me of the mechanical films we saw previously, showing the flow of the machines and the cuts in the music, hearing the Grateful Dead Good Lovin' was a surprise, it's the first time we've heard contemporary music in our films, I guess as the years progress we are in the 1960's we will notice things such as the music used becoming more familiar to us.

1 comment:

  1. Hearing the Grateful dead was interesting, seemed a little out of place at first but then again maybe not, lol.

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