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...Italian avant-garde before World War I, where this show begins, found itself in a fix under the immense shadow of its own cultural history. Either it made a diverting Oedipal commotion about the loathsome oppressiveness of the past, like the futurists, or immersed itself in poignant reveries about its authoritarian and alienating beauty, like Giorgio de Chirico and his associates in metaphysical painting...
...fault is not entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...
...avant-grade director said editing is crucial to determining the impact of images...
Sonbert, a leading U.S. avant-garde director, said his theory of montage is based on "positing" one connotation of an image, "and then, as the work unravels, you take that away." In his film Honor and Obey, for example, police officers are first presented in violent roles, but in later scenes have peaceful conversations...
Sonbert appeared at the screening of four of his films as part of "Avant-Garde Voices." a two-night series sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive. Last night's screening featured two recent films, Honor and Obey...