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...Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 7. Gates was describing an incident of the week before, in Paris, where he had participated in a conference entitled "A Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe...
...relying on his own life for inspiration, McElwee creates a modern version of material which used to be documented only in journals. His "visual essays," as he calls them, capture his surroundings with poignancy and humor, spiced with metaphysical ramblings. "Time Indefinite" continues the story of "Sherman's March," McElwee's 1986 film, which was originally intended to document the path General William Tecumseh Sherman took through the South in the Civil War. Instead McElwee wound up pursuing other interests, namely women...
McElwee continues to question, "what exactly is the nature of nonfiction versus fiction" in filmmaking. A true realist, McElwee describes documetary filmmaking ideally as the "objective presentation of visual images shot from reality." But he concedes, "I guess there's no strain of the purely objective anywhere in the film...That kind of objectivity, we all realize in this post-modern era, is an impossibility. You can't be objective." He cites Errol Morris, the make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document...
...extremely bright, highly motivate" with "vivid imagination." These equalities are "juxtaposed with their relative inexperience with film-making" and that "most of them have never touched a piece of film." But they learn quickly, he says. When asked about Harvard'ts supposed lack of support for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, McElwee responded: "In many ways how could you say that Harvard has been anything but incredibly supportive of the film department here? Students graduate form this place...then they go to graduate schools and they haven't nearly the access they have...here." This opinion...
...accomplished and quite beautiful. Deep-hued silk billows extravagantly around the suitable pulchritudinous actors in just about every scene. Peter Ngor's camera creates a luscious surface of vivid colors and careful compositions that does full justice to Raymond Lee's sets and art direction. However, the film's visual beauty and the amusing acrobatics in some of the scenes fail to distract one from the cruelty of the era the movie depicts. There is an extraordinarily disturbing scene where the prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some of the sex scenes are so over...