{"id":12524,"date":"2018-03-06T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:24:19","slug":"february-2018-shorts-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12524","title":{"rendered":"February 2018 Shorts 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d do another Shorts Month, but February turned out to be pretty busy, so I only got to a dozen (plus the Oscar Animation program<\/a>). Breaking them up into two<\/a> posts…<\/p>\n

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\nSkinningrove<\/em> (2013, Michael Almereyda)<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Experimenter<\/a><\/em> and now Escapes<\/a><\/em>, I thought it’d be worth watching everything I can find by Almereyda. This one is simply a slideshow, narrated by photographer Chris Killip who’d spent a few years documenting the titular fishing village. We get descriptions of who we’re seeing, how his (excellent) photographs were taken, and what happened after (two of the boys died in a storm). Killip says he’s never been sure what he should do with the photos – I suppose this is what.<\/p>\n

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\nMe the Terrible<\/em> (2012, Josephine Decker)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Girl dressed like a pirate conquers New York, from the Statue of Liberty to Wall Street to the Empire State Building, until a gang of red-suited bicyclists steal her teddy bear in Central Park and she abandons the rest of the conquest. The adults seem to be lipsyncing to voices from old movies. Not at all like Decker’s Butter on the Latch<\/a><\/em>, but fully wonderful in all new ways.<\/p>\n

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\nSplit Persona<\/em> (2017, Bradley Rust Gray)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twin sisters Karrie and Jalissa have a majorly depressed mom. Jalissa always takes care of mom, so she asks Karrie to stay home for once, but apparently whenever mom is left home with Karrie she attempts suicide. Bummer of a little film, possibly made as a PSA for mental health care – it barely exists online, despite coming from the director of Jack & Diane<\/a><\/em>. This was written by a Nelson, whose mom suffers from depression, and it stars a Nelson as the mom, but no word whether it’s Mom Nelson.<\/p>\n

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\nSecond Sighted<\/em> (2015, Deborah Stratman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Movement through space. Stock footage. Water and earth… earth under water, and flowing like water. Graphic markups on photographs. Models and data and data models. Good stuff, and I didn’t even mind the soundtrack: drones, chimes and that chirpy chatter that accompanies old computer images. My first by Stratman – I’ve been seeing her name here and there.<\/p>\n

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\nWoodshock<\/em> (1985, Richard Linklater)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunch of pretty annoying dudes clown around at a Texas underground film festival. Daniel Johnston makes an appearance, then the footage starts overlapping and running in reverse in order to get groovy and psychedelic. He calls this a “film attempt” in the credits, fair enough. I spotted GBH and Exploited t-shirts! Shot by Lee Daniel, who was still working with Linklater as late as Boyhood<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nGazing at the Catastrophe<\/em> (2012, Ali Cherri)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Closeup of a man’s face, his skin tone shifting every couple of frames. A photoshop cursor strokes each of his features, slowly applying scars or burns to his visage, then the picture cuts away to stuttering video horrors for a few seconds, and repeat.<\/p>\n

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I thought I’d do another Shorts Month, but February turned out to be pretty busy, so I only got to a dozen (plus the Oscar Animation program). Breaking them up into two posts… – Skinningrove (2013, Michael Almereyda) After Experimenter and now Escapes, I thought it’d be worth watching everything I can find by Almereyda. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2282,2381,2090,361,428,143,21,607,356],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bradley-rust-gray","tag-deborah-stratman","tag-michael-almereyda","tag-new-york","tag-photography","tag-richard-linklater","tag-shorts","tag-suicide","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12537,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}