~ in the neck is low tech, through the heart is high art ~ |
April 6 prompt: Rabbit hole — start a poem on one topic, and let it lead you down a “rabbit hole” of discovery, burrowing into various topics, and maybe ending far, far away from where you started. (Let yourself do research on this one. Enjoy Google and Wikipedia!) attention is a medium of exchange we need to conceptually, sociopolitically, connect this film to Frankenstein, to representations of worldly upheaval (oh god this coffee is stone cold) now phones away engage your brains & watch first scene is subtle in choreography workers shuffle out at shift’s end at half the pace of those who shuffle in uniform, syncopated, symbolic this film is almost a hundred years old try not to view its techniques as cliche remember to refer to context in your essay (that man outside can stick his leaf-blower up his arse & get a fucking broom) Weimar Republic, attempted democracy, high inflation purpose of cinema as social escape use of allegory as social critique (here I am in Plato’s cave, or maybe this is Biblical) is it true to assert that the film is in greyscale when directors had no freedom to choose colour? consider Expressionist kaleidoscopic eyes take note of Moloch as hallucination what’s the effect of this high-angled shot? is silence a technique, they ask, silence with emotion implied through dramatic gestures, wide eyes, okay I’ll pause it we’ll take a short break (my energies are broken) (I need hot coffee) take note of the motif of head, hands & heart but who is the mediator? not I said the spider as I write in blue board marker neat notes in dot points, academic, logical, needing caffeine, sleep, engagement in this metropolis in this silent, flickering film |