Wednesday, October 31, 2007

On "New Autobiography"

While the idea of autobiographical films are not new to this class, the techniques and visual effects of Tuesdays film seemed rather on topic, introducing a collage of manipulated, flowing images and video. Even the audio seemed rather new age and experimental which aided in producing a video that as an autobiography and as a video in general set new heights towards an viewing effectiveness.
On the other hand, the video, which seemed like an autobiography through family and history, completely numbed my mind with it's level of boredom. The filmmaker's family and historical history came through distroted and somewhat dull which brought a thought to mind: "with the idea of the necessity to confess, to what extent can one exagerate life and still proclaim it an autobiography?" While this film is not so much an exageration the visual effects are what comes across as interesting to me as the viewer and not necessarily his autobiography or any shred of an understandable story.

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