In all honesty, last week was one of the most difficult screenings to sit through. However, after I contemplated what I saw, I liked the films a lot more.
Nostalgia seemed to be to be an exploratory video essay on the concept of nostalgia than an avant garde film itself. I liked how it tested the viewer's association with sound and visuals. The disjuncture between the photographs and the descriptions of them was the main vehicle of this. When one was looking at a photograph and building a memory of it, one was exposed to a completely unrelated description. However, it still conjured up ideas for what was to come, since you knew you were about to see the picture being described. Thus once you were exposed to the next picture, you were reminded of the past because you were finally seeing something that to you had already been described. However, by this time you are simultaneously taking in a new visualization. This connected all the images, because one aspect of them was constantly being shown to you in relation to another. Perhaps the content of the film wasn't the most intriguing, but the way in which it was presented was vastly interesting.
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