May 2, 2005
Figures that the week after I get back from New York is when MoMA decides to premiere the new Chris Marker installation, OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men.
I'm not too terribly informed on Marker - I haven't seen Sans Soleil, for example - but La Jetee made such an impact on me that I get excited whenever I hear his name. This new piece sounds fascinating. I'm always excited, too, to see filmmakers exhibiting their work in museums - or, for that matter, creating the work with that form of exhibition in mind. I love visiting museums or galleries and ducking into the darkned alcoves where video installations play to relatively hypnotized audiences. Attention spans vanish in these contexts.
I haven't read the T.S. Eliot poem upon which Marker's film loop is based - but I have it in the collection on my bookshelf, which also includes the poem that provided a sort of (arbitrary) platform for one of the other pieces I'm currently writing, which I'm currently dragging my feet in finishing and which I had sort of promised to myself I'd complete before I post here again - but oh well, what can you do.
Posted by David Lowery at May 2, 2005 6:27 PM
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I get excited whenever I hear his name...in bed!
Posted by: jmj at May 2, 2005 11:04 PM
Naturally!
Posted by: Ghostboy at May 3, 2005 12:01 AM