Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sequences like these Godard raises complex questions with the simplest of material. The method by which their images and sounds are internally constructed and externally combined provides a discourse that clarifies the meaning of each separate sequence. Form, by directly realizing material, shows the right way to analyze...
...some sequences form is not clear enough, and the implications of Godard's method of presentation do not reveal themselves. During the long "experimental film," for example, one tape recording of a student's speech during the strike of May '68 is played, then speeded up, then slowed to catch a section of his speech so far ahead that its subject has changed. When this tape is running at high speed a whispering voice supplies theoretical dicta for revolutionary action, possibly as a critique of the first. What this mode of presentation implies is unclear. Lacking accompanying images...
...film's limitations spring from its virtues. While Godard's method brilliantly analyzes the language of film, it cannot analyze anything else. We can apply the lessons learned in Le Gai Savoir's sounds and images to our experiences in other films and- occasionally- to our parallel experiences in reality...
MISTODIMAN . . . a mixture of "method" and "sentiment" . . . It's a word I made up to describe images and sounds. -Leaud...
Until recently, surgeons had only one method of correcting damage to the eardrum-repair of the tympanum with tissue usually taken from the fibrous lining of the ear muscle. This operation sometimes thickened the eardrum and thus produced only questionable improvements in hearing efficiency. Now surgeons are perfecting a technique for replacing damaged eardrums and ossicles with healthy donor tissue. The operation offers some new hope for an escape from hearing impairment...