a daughter tries to give a mother proper burial. mythical, mysterious and comedic; all around great filmmaking. beautifully shot and stunning composistions. check it out.
"George Barber is one of the pioneers of Scratch Video which emerged in the UK during the mid-1980s. Scratch video makes use of found images from films and television, cutting seemingly incongruous imagery together to make a new meaning; it has been compared to the record-scratching techniques of hip-hop music, hence the name."
just watched this film for the cup without knowing anything about it or its director... it's become one of my favorite films of all time. can't wait to explore more of his (glauber rocha) work. MORE ON THIS FILM SOON.
Straub apologised for not being able to attend – and added, “Besides, I couldn’t have a good time at a festival where there are so many public and private police looking for a terrorist – the terrorist is me, and I tell you, paraphrasing Franco Fortini: as long as there’s American imperialist capitalism, there won’t be enough terrorists in the world.”