Reading Response #3

2. He argues that it plays a major role because "the combination of picture and sound at the conclusion of the conclusion of the next episode exemplifies the latter." I was confused by the word synecdoche. I guess it is trying to say that Charles actions are a part of what is going to happen? Very confused. Brakhage had most likely seen The End and been influenced going on to create Reflections on Black. His had seen ideas from Maclaine's film and portrayed them into his own work.

3. Conner's films use bits of irony and move between the terrible and the ridiculous. He plays with the film and makes the viewer work and pay attention to his details in order to get the ideals across in each episode. Maclaine on the other hand takes the mature, straight forward route of presenting this vision of doom. The emotions of this film run over the whole course unlike Conner's emotional roller coaster.

4. These two films are examples of Beat sensibility because of the positions and emotions that are represented through their main protagonistic characters. The films seemed to be created with low budget, minimal editing, and low standards. Examples of the picaresque form are evident in the expansive never ending middle which allows them to have episodes.

5. This was the movement that wanted to poke fun at the artist and what they called art. It was a fight against high art such as the dada created meaningful art out of non-arty things. Very similar to the dada movement the fluxfilms aimed at irony to present their art towards Anger and Brakhage.

6. The focus of Fluxfilms was not to focus on the individual artist and their own achievements in the film, it was to parody their mode of film production and ideas. They were concerned with producing film by the yard and not by the frame like Brakhage and Anger. The collaboration of artist helped produce the film but took away from the personal aspect of it.

7. Jenkins says that Zen for Film fixed the material and aesthetic terms for production of fluxfilms because it uses the medium of film with the basics of filmmaking skills and techniques to make something that is different every time. Many people believed the film is nothing but to a few the small imperfections of the film is what created its micro details and a film that is comprehend able for the abstract artist. It showed non believers that something can be made out of nothing.