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Rebecca Lewis
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James Fotopoulos
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: Not Rated
: Facets
: Independent, Experimental/Avant-Garde
: 80 min.
: English
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Chicago-based avant garde filmmaker James Fotopoulos directs Migrating Forms, a minimalist exercise in sexual dysfunction. A woman with blonde hair (Rebecca Lewis) and a stone-faced man (Preston Baty) have anti-erotic sex, smoke cigarettes, and drink water. They are watched by the man's cat. The scene repeats itself while each parter develops a growth on their back and the bathroom fills up with bugs. Shot in 16 mm black-and-white, Migrating Forms won the Best Feature award at the 2000 New York Underground Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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| Admittedly not for everybody...but it should be.
by jaimetout
June 18, 2004 - 8:39 AM PDT
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1 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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I saw this film last night and I think it scarred my brain. I'm not sure exactly what it was that lodged itself so forcefully into my cerebrum, but whatever it was, it's there to stay. This film will almost certainly suffer from the reactions of viewers who judge films based upon the "aesthetic" criteria of Hollywood filmmaking. There are other ways of making films, other uses of the medium. Unfortunately, most of us accept the idea that if a film isn't up to Hollywood's "high technical standards" (i.e. aesthetic bankruptcy resulting from focus on "correct" exposure and "correct" audio recording--on craft rather than on art--on $$$$$$$$). The themes of the film are very much similar to those of Lynch's & Cronenberg's films, but Fotopoulos takes a few risks even directors like these will shy away from. Muddled audio, overexposure, a single camera angle from which a majority of the action occurs--all of this adds up to something original, and the whole is indeed more than the sum of the aforementioned parts. I wish people would give films like this one a chance to work their spell, rather than simply write them off because the sound isn't Dolby 5.1. Is the important thing a "spectacular listening experience" or something that's actually meaningful?
Sadly, I think I know how most of us will answer that question. |
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