Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost becomes a still. After the opening scene in Shimonseki, the shift to Tokyo is indicated by the stark image of smokestacks against a smutty sky, and the title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment of Japanese prints, the black and white photography of the film heightening its formal links to traditional Japanese art. Each interior, every landscape shot, whether bleak or beautiful, instills respect for an eye so fine that it can turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo...
...almost becomes a still. After the opening scene in Shimonoseki, the shift to Tokyo is indicated by the stark image of smokestacks against a smutty sky, and the title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment of Japanese prints, the black and white photography of the film heightening its formal links to traditional Japanese art. Each interior, every landscape shot, whether bleak or beautiful, instills respect for an eye so fine that it can turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo...
Oddest of all is a set of Central African lyres like the one below. Instead of using the usual gourds, the resourceful Africans lopped off human heads, scooped out the contents and covered the tops with parchment and strings. They left a little hair around the ears for decoration...
...setting sets the mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
Chaos is a map-maker's concept. After you have drawn in the part of the world you know, you must fill in to the edge of the parchment. Always a little beyond known seas begin the chimeras and monsters which obviously exist. They occupy the page to the edge where the border says we can stop, breathless. But we never know what is beyond the limits of our map and mind. On clear days we venture into that darkness, we take all that we know from our world and because we cannot know better, define our new visions with...