Blue Moses

Quite a silly film. Lots of experimental wankery ruin what appears to be an intellectual and accessible deconstruction of film as a story-telling device.

There are glimpses of creativity, but mostly it is a stylized experience that relies heavily on its editing. The editing is good, but it's not good enough to redeem the lacklustre content.

60's for me are the start of deconstruction in cinema. In that piece, Brakhage suggests that the idea of a film as a dramatic and narrative totality maybe wrong from the beginning: as this movie suggests, every film and narrative contains its own deconstruction eo ipso, a flaw in a scene or the look of an actor revealing the fourth wall in the scene which exist in all films actually refer to the absolute deconstruction which Brakhage wants to show with that movie.

I shouldn't even rate this, because the audio was missing. Without being able to hear what was being said, it just looked like two guys having fun with a camera. Even as a silent (as the vast majority of Brakhage's work is, anyway) there were a few interesting things going on.