Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie based on Edgar Allen Poe's elegaic prose poem Ligeia. Since then he's made a number of films, including a feature called Negatives when he was a freshman here. But it's strange. He's no cinema pedant--far from it, and he doesn't major in Visual Studies. He likes Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Blow-up, nothing fancy. Nothing experimental or avant-garde for him. He makes full-length feature films on commercial subjects and with big-name stars. One purpose of Counterpoint was to supplement applications to the film schools at USC and UCLA...
Donald Brown describes Counterpoint as a film of "hidden meanings." "An imposed, artificial order on the surface" (this is supposed to be symbolized visually by recurring shots of clocks, rows, columns, etc.) hides a world of "chaos underneath" (symbolized by smoke). This is "counterpoint." There is also a set of "misconceptions" and "red herrings" in the plot line which parallel this visual theme...
...could, in time, completely undermine the present landscape of the Yard and ultimately create a resemblance to the Maine woods. By blocking views of the Yard's buildings from a very low height, these trees would become more significant than the buildings, thus eliminating the latter as a forceful visual component of the environment...
Here the designers have tried to have their cake and eat it too. In aspiring to maintain established spatial qualities in this most important corner of the Yard, they have tried to design an inconspicuous building which will have a most conspicuous range of environmental effects. The visual closure which reinforces one's sense of security within the Yard is gone. A vast new vista will be opened across the new rooftop. When the Pusey Library's foundations were excavated, the rectangular spatial envelope of the Yard was destroyed--possibly not forever, but probably for a long time...
Wright's visual effects are often striking: a consumer trapped between the buns of a "Nixonburger," two modest chairs labeled "Legislative" and "Judicial" dwarfed by an "Executive" throne. And he does not mind demanding considerable reading time. Under a cartoon showing Uncle Sam and a small boy strolling through a smudged wasteland, Wright placed the caption: "Well, our spacious skies got dirty when we cut back on clean air standards and we sold the amber waves of grain to other countries. The purple mountain majesties were gutted for strip mining and the fruited plain was leased to Exxon...