{"id":13069,"date":"2019-07-25T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:04:15","slug":"the-grand-bizarre-2018-jodie-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13069","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>True\/False 2019!<\/strong>  I&#8217;m writing it up almost five months late, but at least I took notes at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This feature was not as frenetic as I expected from the few shorts I&#8217;ve seen &#8211; certainly frenetic in segments but not for the entire hour.  Sunlit stop-motion, shadows moving across the frame, sometimes obscuring the textiles.  Flashes of notes, sheet music, paper planes, representing work, grids, global commerce.  I was on the &#8220;less drowsy&#8221; motion pills after a very heavy week and six hours of travel, so instead of my zoned-in attentive mode, I had to tired-watch and space out to the images and music.  Maybe a third was set to upbeat electro music, featuring the cinephile-notorious skype-tone remix, the rest calmer and less dense sound, including the noises made while shooting a scene.  She started taking materials with her on trips instead of sourcing locally, since the fabrics she found weren&#8217;t locally produced anyway.  Mack seems smart and energetic, ends every Q&#038;A answer with &#8220;was that an answer?,&#8221; K says she&#8217;d be a great professor.  Opening act Gibbz was poppy and lo-fi\/distant-sounding &#8211; that might&#8217;ve been a quirk of the sound system, but I really dug it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov 7, 2020:<\/strong> Watched again, non-drowsy, on a momentous night.  I&#8217;d intended to watch <em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>, but felt like some positivity was in order.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/grandbiz.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True\/False 2019! I&#8217;m writing it up almost five months late, but at least I took notes at the time. This feature was not as frenetic as I expected from the few shorts I&#8217;ve seen &#8211; certainly frenetic in segments but not for the entire hour. Sunlit stop-motion, shadows moving across the frame, sometimes obscuring the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1049,287,2547,2384,590,2245],"class_list":["post-13069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-director-in-attendance","tag-fabric","tag-jodie-mack","tag-stop-motion","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069","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=13069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}