{"id":13576,"date":"2020-05-30T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2020-05-26T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T04:01:23","slug":"ouroboros-2017-basma-alsharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13576","title":{"rendered":"Ouroboros (2017, Basma Alsharif)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn: very sweet drone shots, then when we reach the ground, a Ben Russell follow-cam in reverse (literally, Ben is the cinematographer on this), music very droney.  Woman walks through fruit trees then a large house, adjusting things here and there&#8230; I get the impression she doesn&#8217;t live in the house but works there.  We recede from the grounds, then Sky Hopinka reads us some words about home and place and loss.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/ouroboros1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Noon: Inside a different house, a black man sings Dixie for the mostly-white others &#8211; ah, they&#8217;re all rehearsing something.  Bald neck-tattoo guy casually walks in and out of houses and conversations, nobody seems to mind him.<\/p>\n<p>Dusk: Much of the movie is in reverse.  We see some ouroboros drawings to remind us what we&#8217;re watching.  Bald guy seems oddly peaceful for someone with the word RIOT tattooed on his wrist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/ouroboros2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Night, then Dusk, then Noon again.  Fifty minutes in, our man asks &#8220;would you like to see a magic trick&#8221; &#8211; is this the first time he&#8217;s spoken?  A phantom ping-pong match is unexpected, ghostly superimpositions, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13498\">Metamorphosis of Birds<\/a><\/em> leaf-play, a drone in a fancy sitting room that turns out to be diegetic.  The movie ends quite wonderfully with a dance remix of itself!<\/p>\n<p><em>Droneman:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/ouroboros3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The official description says it &#8220;turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak,&#8221; and says our lead guy is Diego Marcon, an ontology-questioning visual artist whose latest short played Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/a-slow-assessment-2017-whitney-biennial-film-program\">Michael Sicinski:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t know anything more about our traveler than we did when we began, but Alsharif has provided us with a utopian conception of lived space. In cinema, perhaps, begins responsibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Deep Sleep<\/em> (2014, Basma Alsharif)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trancefilm, again shot with Ben Russell in Palestine and elsewhere.  Footsteps, and columns, and pointing.  Like the feature, it slips between locations.  Picture (and sometimes sound) will have full-color flicker freakouts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/deepsleep1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/deepsleep2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn: very sweet drone shots, then when we reach the ground, a Ben Russell follow-cam in reverse (literally, Ben is the cinematographer on this), music very droney. Woman walks through fruit trees then a large house, adjusting things here and there&#8230; I get the impression she doesn&#8217;t live in the house but works there. We [&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":[1049,2671,1032,1578,240,2655],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-basma-alsharif","tag-ben-russell","tag-palestine","tag-reverse","tag-sky-hopinka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","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=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13612,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions\/13612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}