THE GOLD MACHINE {2022, Grant Gee; UK Netherlands}

#Film #EssayFilm #Cinema #FilmDiary0123

An average German male who was born in the 70s, lives up to be 76 1/2 years. Philipp Hartmann started filming in 2010. He, then 38 1/4, was exactly at the half point of his life. Suffering from chronophobia - fear of passing of time, he made this movie, Die Zeit vergeht wie ein brüllender Löwe, clocking at 76 minutes, one minute counting as one year of his life. At the half point of the movie, he hurriedly catches up to "now" in a very inventive fashion. This philosophical visual quandary isn't as dry as it sounds. It's warm, funny, & thought provoking. The still photos of Hartmann's childhood in the beginning, all only half part exposed, are the compilation of the beginning of each film rolls, signifying the images just before his father captured that moment. He sets up situations with actors, narrating scenarios dealing with time. Contemplative and lyrical, Hartmann's inquiry is sincere and heartfelt rather than clever. #germancinema #documentary #essayfilm #philipphartmann

Crossing Cinema: the Diary Film, the Essay Film, and the Voice of I is a volume published by Bookman Books in 2022, and written by Taiwanese scholar and filmmaker Lee Ming-Yu on the possibilities and aesthetics of essay and diary films. 
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https://wp.me/p5pzfu-1Lg

Beauty. Marker's outsider's point of view of China stresses similarities of human existence rather than contrasts while not losing the Western curiosity of the Far East. "The revolution was against capitalists, dusts and flies..." narrates the Marker surrogate wryly. In Peking that there are no more capitalists than there are flies. Sunday activities of regular people are captured in beautiful Kodachrome, restored in 2013 by The Eclair Group. #ChrisMarker #essayfilm #china #sundaysinpeking

Sublime. Marker's musings on impermanence of human existence & memories narrated by a female narrator are both poetic and thoughtful. 80's Japan takes the center stage as an alien world where a thousand years of time criss-crossing in every street corner, Kilgore Trout style. Beautiful and wise beyond anything I've seen or read. #sanssoleil #ChrisMarker #Japan #essayfilm

Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-98) - Godard
#jlg #godard #essayfilm #history #cinema
http://www.dustinchang.com/2020/04/historystory-of-cinema-and-us.html?m=1

Hey. Assistant Prof. Film & Media studies at Örebro University. I work on film / video / audiovisual media as a forms for thought / theory / philosophy. Into Godard, some Akomfrah, always return to Deleuze.

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