My complain with the movie is a matter of form. We can only get glimpses of it, not in everyday life, but through it, beyond it, inside us. We long for paradise, but paradise is lost. "This is a political film", says the movie repeatedly, and yet in the artificial idealized world of the film politics is entirely absent -there's no poverty, no war, no questioning of his bourgeois lifestyle-, and that's precisely the point: to show not how the world is, but how we want it to be, and how that desire can sometimes become a shallow fantasy. Mekas remarks multiple times the fact that this images are to an extent unreal: people are not so innocent as these images show them to be, people do not love each other as much, other people's perceptions of the same events are quite different, and he isn't just filming his children but he is inventing his own childhood through them. Through the narration and the titles, ambiguity is introduced into the mix. I think it is sort of a misconception to say that this film is about the beauty of life, and nostalgia for the past. I believe that some of the content that I am trying to record with my camera and share with others, can be caught only very indirectly though the intensity of personal involvement.Reviewed by sanwolfx 8 / 10 More complex than it seems I have spent many years developing and perfecting a way of catching the immediacy without interfering with it, without destroying it. A lot of importance is being given to color, movement, rhythm and structure - all very essential to the subject matter I am pursuing. I am interested in intensifying the fleeting moments of reality by a personal way of filming and structuring my material. It follows a tradition established by modern film poets. The film is not conceived as a documentary film, however. As a film-maker, I am taking a stand for the politics that have been practiced by some of the artists of my generation who believe that more essential, positive contributions to the upholding and furthering of the best in humanity, have been made, say, by John Cage or Albert Camus, and not by the great political figures of the 20th century. I am interested in recording the subtle, almost invisible acts, experiences, feelings, as opposed to the tough, harsh, loud, violent activities and political actions, and especially, political systems of our time. "Now, all this has to do with my understanding and belief of what acts really affect the positive changes in man, society, humanity. This, as opposed to the spectacular, entertaining, sensational, dramatic activities which dominate much of the contemporary film-making. is a record of subtle feelings, emotions, daily joys of people as recorded in the voices, faces and small everyday activities of people I have met, or lived with, or observed - something that I have been recording for many years. This, as opposed to the spectacular, entertaining, sensational, dramatic activities which dominate much of the contemporary film-making.ĪS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY
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