Review

I too thought that last week’s screenings were the most difficult to sit through.

I found Jack’s Smith’s Flaming Creatures to be interesting at first, but the rape-orgy scene and the screaming was very disturbing. The readings and Tuesday’s discussion provided some ideas of what the Smith meant to portray, but I too question how the disturbing violence relates to the glorification of sex.

I found Andy Warhol’s Blow Job to be rather boring as it was so repetitive. I do find it interesting to think that without knowledge of the title, the man could be perceived at doing all sorts of activities. Eventually though, I found myself noticing on how strange the human face looks at different angles.

Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) was slightly more interesting. The concept of burning photographs is interesting and I wonder why Frampton decided to have the narration correspond to the future photograph. Maybe this is supposed to represent how it takes a while for our memory to forget something after we decide we want to forget it. I did find the film to get boring after a while and because of the structuralist nature of the film and I couldn’t help but countdown how many photographs were left.