Larry Gottheim Collection ( Blues / Corn / Fog Line / Doorway / Harmonica / Thought / Barn Rushes )

Larry Gottheim Collection (DVD) (*)

$31.99

Original Title: Blues / Corn / Fog Line / Doorway / Harmonica / Thought / Barn Rushes
Language Selections:
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1970-1971 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Larry Gottheim

Actors:
Shelley Berde

Synopsis:

Arguably Larry Gottheim's most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains the camera on a friend improvising a tune in the backseat of a moving car. Held out the window, the harmonica becomes a musical conduit for the wind, while Gottheim's film transforms before our eyes into a playful meditation on wrangling the natural elements into art. - Max Goldberg. Perfect works have a way of appearing unobtrusive or simple, the complexities seeming to be so correct that they flow-mesmerize one through their form-a form that bespeaks of harmony between many aesthetic concerns. Larry Gottheim's Doorway is such a film. His concern for working with edges, isolating details, the prominence of the frame as a shape and revealer of edges, love of photographic texture, are all dealt with lucidly in this film. One is drawn into these beautiful images through Gottheim's poetic feel for photographic qualities, his ability to transform a landscape through his rigorous use of the frame to isolate in order to call attention to a heretofore hidden beauty revealed through a highly selective eye. Fog Line is a wonderful piece of conceptual art, a stroke along that careful line between wit and wisdom-a melody in which literally every frame is different from every preceding frame (since the fog is always lifting) and the various elements of the composition-trees, animals, vegetation, sky, and, quite importantly, the emulsion, the grain of the film itself- continue to play off one another as do notes in a musical composition. The quality of the light-the tonality of the image itself-adds immeasurably to the mystery and excitement as the work unfolds, the fog lifting, the film running through the gate, the composition static yet the frame itself fluid, dynamic, magnificently kinetic

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 26 June, 2021.