More from my favorite new pastime: browsing the amazing body of work that exists on VIMEO.
As some of you may know from recent comically reactionary comments on my friend Dave’s blog, one of my degrees is in Fine Arts. Photography and “Avant Garde” Film to be exact. And in producing and analyzing many works in college, one reoccurring visual theme in both my work and in films that piqued my interest, was the use of mirrors and reflection. So as you might imagine, I love this piece.
If I can manage to find a way to transfer my films to video without damaging them, I’ll eventually post some of my own work from college. But until then, if this type of visual playfulness interests you, and you in the mood for some very layered and complicated stream of consciousness Russian cinema that toys with memory and forgetting, and loss and nostalgia, and a little wartime Russian politics thrown in for good measure…check out Tarkovsky’s Mirror…readily available on Netflix and at your local video store.
In the meantime, for a “shallower” version of similar themes, take a gander at this:
