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...with zoom-ins on groups and individuals, and set shots of people suddenly zoom-out to include their surroundings: texts and contexts. And documented reality confronts the film apparatus itself: people talk directly into the camera, or they attack it, despise it sullenly, or avoid it in the voyeuristic hand-held sequences that record images of people in the most abject situations of poverty. Interviews are broken down into components of monologue and detached images, as in the long shot of guerrilla leader Julio Troxler wandering solemnly around the garbage dump where many of his compatriots had been massacred, while...
...context as a constant, being a Marxist, and portrays no character without a dual, self-contradictory, internally dialectical nature. Diaz, for example, is continually marching around carrying the black flag of the labor movement in one hand and a crucifix in the other. Martins tells his story, alternating extreme long-shots for a bare objectivity with the jerkiness of hand-held shots that move with the dynamics of a scene. This latter, subjective technique involves you in an operatic (as opposed to dramatic), stylized penetration of depth in a frenzied, musical chaos, coaxing you into a participation with the dialectics...
...there any place a mutant can get a decent meal around here?" That quaint query is a line from a "contemporary and American opera" called Escalator Over the Hill. And who is recording it but Viva, underground superstar of such Andy Warhol hand-held flicks as Blue Movie and Bike Boy, and brand-new author of a rather autobiographical and hilariously funny novel called Superstar. Mrs. Michel Auder in relatively real life, Viva combines the best features of a beautiful woman, a four-year-old child and a man from Mars, and is about to try a new role: motherhood...
Full-length feature films make up by far the most profitable and fastest growing segment of the porn business. There can be big money in the shoestring "sexploitation" flicks, which are ground out in backyards and garages by youngsters with hand-held cameras. Man and Wife, produced in Los Angeles 18 months ago by Matt Cimber for $32,000, has grossed $4,500,000 so far. Alan Roberts, 23, a partner in SAE Productions of Los Angeles, reports that his company recouped its $45,000 investment in Zodiac Couples within three months after its release. In San Francisco, two brothers...
...more successful. Probably the best of these later films is Valentin de las Sierras, made in Mexico. Rather than unify the film through a central protagonist's experience, Baillie portrays the world as a child sees it, conveying a clear sense of wonder through close-ups and impressionistic hand-held camera work. Shots with specific meanings reoccur in a variety of contexts, and characteristic Baillie imagery-a dark horse, an unlit entryway-rearranges itself according to a child-like vision...