Second part of Nanook and I'm still but its slower and in some ways more beautiful and mesmeric than the first part. Winds and snow blowing in one direction, Nanook and family walking towards the camera, in the other direction. Coming towards 'us'.
Night Mail
Machines, Alienation, industrialisation, machines more important than humans, part of bigger picture, know your place. accept you place.
Night mail starts with a 3d title, we are about to show you more depth, though its contained within these boxes. It ends with a more transparent end title, though still not clear, but with a train behind it. Wires across the sky, they are more prominent, more important. Role of men, invisible women, contrast, rhythmic, rap/poem of Auden.
Grierson - 'I look at cinema as a pulpit'
'Problems facing society had gone beyond comprehension of most citizens'
'Night mail was seen as industrial enabler for social change?'
"Art is a hammer, not a mirror'
(I thought that was Brect?)
UK GPO
US Corprate
RUS Experimental
Makes sense of world affairs, economics and movements
(Was thinking whatever I create for MA, I am still representing and performing resistance, NSSN, HADPS, Web, social networking campaign profiles, support film distribution)
HOME F
We should aspire to the suburban life and the wife, the children and rest our male worries.
Rich live in the west of london, like now! And with HB cuts and general house prices little has changed. 10 years of your life goes down as you go from Kensignton to Aldgate.
Study of Film, Study of Literature
Class society accept
Even if I dont speak I am within a collective converstation, space. Why silent? why speak?
SPARE TIME F
How do workers spend thier time from 3 industrial sectors
Time 'we' call our own
Music obvious - takes one scene to next.
ACTION
Get notes from PT
Ask about DSLR camera workshop - smaller cam with lenses.. lovely!
Check filmstore on Mare st
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