15/16

I found the film I most recall from last week's screenings was Kren's 15/16. There was something about the simplicity and repetitive quantity of shots that made me really try to figure out Kren's objective. The film seemed to suck you into its multiple layers- the silhouettes sitting in the cafe, with the people walking in the middle ground and the dockyard in the background. I seemed to focus on different things at different times, yet it all also seemed to be repeating itself. It seemed almost like Kren was trying to mess with you by making you look at one layer, switch to another, and then by the time you came back to the layer you were looking at before it was repeating itself. I think this sets up an abstraction of time that changes the literal perception of things going on around you to constant cycles.