Monday, February 11th Response

This week in discussion, we talked mostly about the idea of deadpan comedy, and how it is, and was used in films. Carl mentioned that Buster Keaton was a pioneer, or even an icon of this sort of behavior. Robert Morris' "Mirror" was not really a favorite of mine. The idea was kind of cool I thought, but it just wasn't executed in the right way. Over all i thought that it was pretty boring. Hollis Frampton's "Lemon" was not exactly the most intense film either, but i thought it was an interesting one. The way he used the light to engulf, and then make the lemon in to a sillhouette was very cool i thought. The one that caught me off guard most was Wolukau's "A Short Film About Tate Modern". I had a few issues with this one. First off, i could barely read the words that came up fast enough. Once the words finally stopped, the shot that came after was very obscure, and i really wasn't able to tell exactly what happened. I don't know if this is what the artist was shooting for or not, but if it was they did a good job.