TRUTH IS IN THE PULP
on thinking about all that super psychy lo-fi music thats wonderful and great and keeps giving skewed looks at pop, folk, electronic, and world music, my mind keeps coming around the extrapolated train of thought as to what exactly is driving all this. a sort of rejection of technology as it applies to production value while completely embracing technology in its ability to connect these hidden far flung ideas to all the others on the fringe of out aural and visual culture. trying to achieve a greater sincerity in its expression over making a radio releasable hit, but still appreciating the format rather than just making noise music as a response. its great and ill get into a whole world of it later but today is dealing with how these ideas are not confined to music and the same values are being applied with exceptional results to the world of film as well.
have you ever heard of Damon Packard? A wonderful underground filmmaker whose privately funded films often take the production values of 70s B-movie fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres to create excessively lo-fi films often in homage to these older genre's while exacting the fact that they are made today to emphasize the empty artistic value of modern cinema. this love of the true and real over the perfect and beautiful gives them an honesty most films cant achieve with the best actors and production values.
On the other end of a similar spectrum we have the recently imported Daft Punk movie, Electroma. while this does not apply to the lo-fi film aesthetic, i believe relies just as heavily on the ideas that studio films have been hallow shells of the possibilities of film for at least the last 25 years. with no dialog whatsoever and long drawn out scenes where not much happens the power of this film lies in its endearing concept and its beautiful elongated shots. also not featuring any of the duos music, the classic-ness of the film is framed by lots of 70s glam tracks, folk songs and modern orchestral compositions. the effect is an attempt at resurrecting the power of cinema to let the audiences imagination flourish as well as creating a sort of modern timelessness. thus far it has only been screened 3 times of which only one has been in America, though look for the DVD possibly by the end of the summer.
have you ever heard of Damon Packard? A wonderful underground filmmaker whose privately funded films often take the production values of 70s B-movie fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres to create excessively lo-fi films often in homage to these older genre's while exacting the fact that they are made today to emphasize the empty artistic value of modern cinema. this love of the true and real over the perfect and beautiful gives them an honesty most films cant achieve with the best actors and production values.
On the other end of a similar spectrum we have the recently imported Daft Punk movie, Electroma. while this does not apply to the lo-fi film aesthetic, i believe relies just as heavily on the ideas that studio films have been hallow shells of the possibilities of film for at least the last 25 years. with no dialog whatsoever and long drawn out scenes where not much happens the power of this film lies in its endearing concept and its beautiful elongated shots. also not featuring any of the duos music, the classic-ness of the film is framed by lots of 70s glam tracks, folk songs and modern orchestral compositions. the effect is an attempt at resurrecting the power of cinema to let the audiences imagination flourish as well as creating a sort of modern timelessness. thus far it has only been screened 3 times of which only one has been in America, though look for the DVD possibly by the end of the summer.
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