Word: camerawork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director in search of a screenplay. It seems more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination. His visuals in riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother...
...pregnant woman in the bathtub, then you've probably never tried to compose an aesthetic for photography. In the current exhibition at M.I.T., Minor White, professor and director of the Creative Photography Laboratory, has selected works that conceptualize "be-ingness" as the ideal form of camerawork...
...explain the evolution of an ideal form to accommodate the medium of camerawork, White traces the development of the nude as the ideal form in art. He draws on classic forms from Clark's Nude: Study: the Greek model of Perfect Man as god, beautiful body and well-trained athlete; the change Christianity marked as the ideal became fallen man, like Van Eyck's Adam or Eve with protruding bellies; the Renaissance resurrection of love for the human form; and then a need for the spiritualization of man as he rejects all former images of himself...
...White had pointed out these aspects of "the nude" as an ideal form of art distinguished from the "naked" as an ideal form of life, maybe then we'd understand "be-ing without clothes" as a form of camerawork that is neither "nude" nor "naked." Rather, he lets a hundred photos determine his exhibition instead of locating them in relation to his statement of be-ingness as photography's ideal form...
...images that do work suggest the direction the film should have taken. The first few shots of a nude wrestling match between Birken and Gerald, deep, low-angle, lit by a darkly golden fire. are quite eerie in their implications. (Although, the inevitable pulsing soundtrack and tumultuous camerawork mar the development of the scene.) A shot of a drowned girl, entwined in the arms of her dead lover, as they are washed up onto a muddy shore is equally effective. (Although, it is mistakenly intercut with shots of Birken and Ursula making love. Properly, the omen is directed at Gerald...