Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each scene had to portray a different location, using a set limited to a painted floor, a projection screen and a metal table...
...young lawyer defends a youth, Jacek, against a sentence of capital punishment for his brutal killing of a taxi driver. In the opening, the lawyer's words--"The law should not imitate nature, the law should improve it...For whom does the law avenge?"--emerge, disembodied, from a black screen. From the beginning, the emphasis is on the nature of justice. The film does not excuse the youth's crime; he is shown first strangling, then beating, the taxi driver to his death before sinking him in a pond. It is not his guilt that is in question...
...most notorious lover. Johnny Depp, with his penchant for eccentric roles, seems to be an inspired choice to play the mysterious, sensuous young man who appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate memories of his prolific love life. But as the picture-perfect sunsets flash across the screen, the lovely ladies disrobe, the orchestra hums and the saccharine sentiments fly, it becomes apparent that his Don Juan is just another primetime soap opera rogue...
Today, and tomorrow, any ambitious entertainment outfit must be an all-purpose, universal-joint conglomerate--for two big reasons. First, the media are converging, one on top of the other, even as the computer, phone line and TV screen are converging into the brave new integrated system of tomorrow. Second, the globalization of the U.S. entertainment industry is roaring forward unabated, making Hollywood an exhilarating, sky's-the-limit export factory...
...point in the exhibit, onscreen images of planet Earth appear one at a time on different screens while the voice talks about Creation. The images bubble from screen to screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more...