While I’ve been reveling in many of the old films presented at the Locarno Festival, so far the new ones mainly seem to think making movies is merely the choice of film references and personal re-interpretation of favorite tropes. This approach nearly sidesteps two of the most essential qualities of the cinema: a hunger or need to film something, to reveal something to the audience that one is excited about, eager and driven to communicate; and an acute perspective on the world, a strong stance taken, one which places something at stake in the making and watching of a picture, rather than the respectful regurgitation of techniques and themes.Thankfully, the festival also has Jodie Mack, an exuberant sprite of cinema whose frame-by-frame animations of object patterns like wallpaper catalogs or lacework into giddy, materialist flicker films are some of the most delightful of short filmmaking. She has brought to Locarno her first feature,...
- 8/10/2018
- MUBI
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