Eyethrobber

Currently messing with a 'directionless' image processing, erm, process. Starting with an image and no fixed route to an endpoint, or preconceived result to aim for. I use this approach putting sound together sometimes, less so before with images. It's a trial and error, more pure experimentation approach that can be very hit or miss. A lot ends up as unusable drivvel. Some is decent. Occassionally you end up with something that you can't remember how you got to but you like a lot. It's freeing and more absorbing sometimes, but eats more time. Plus, unless you rigerously document how you've got from A to B (and who can be arsed?), you can't recreate cumulative effects, but that's part of the fun.

Rewatched Fellini's La Dolche Vita over the weekend - took advantage of the NYC storm to get absorbed in it. It's looonnnng, disjointed, and can be a challenge at times, but it's one of those flicks that keeps on giving. I was surprised at a few true comic moments embedded in the style and flow. A great journey through the pointlessness of New Age Italian celebrity wanderings, a great sketch of one side of Roma, inlcudes nice comment on the leechlike scamperings of the media (the ratlike paparazzi are hilarious), and the sublime composition of some shots remind why Fellini is on his pedestal. Can see influence on the likes of Bergman, Allen, & Leigh from this, definitely.