{"id":15633,"date":"2023-04-20T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15633"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:50:49","slug":"forms-of-forgetting-2023-burak-cevik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15633","title":{"rendered":"Forms of Forgetting (2023, Burak \u00c7evik)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drona opened, singing their earnest young sibling pop in unison.  Burak finds a hole in a frozen lake where someone has been net fishing.  A person seen only torso-down pulls up the net partway, drops it.  Next guy pulls up the net partway, drops it, and so on.  Is this a form of forgetting?  Many other such forms appear&#8230; elephants, who never forget&#8230; buildings being constructed and demolished&#8230; buried bodies in a shipyard which was once a prison.  The most extreme form is when a dead person&#8217;s brain is removed during autopsy, as seen via <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1065\">Brakhage film<\/a> playing on a laptop.  The centerpiece scene, a multi-layered couple conversing about their (fictionalized) relationship, each one sharing a dream they&#8217;d had, was inspired by a love of DVD commentaries.<\/p>\n<p>Burak is probably the biggest name director we saw at T\/F, with his Blake Williams \/ Bohdanowicz crossover movie currently in Cinema Scope and his <em>Belonging<\/em> making a splash a few years ago &#8211; or maybe he&#8217;s a tie with Stratman.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tension Envelopes<\/em> (2023, Robert Greene)<\/strong><br \/>\nA new depopulated Greene short played before the feature &#8211; thoughts from within an envelope factory appear as titles over shots of city landscapes.  A playful little experiment with some horrors-of-capitalism thrown in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drona opened, singing their earnest young sibling pop in unison. Burak finds a hole in a frozen lake where someone has been net fishing. A person seen only torso-down pulls up the net partway, drops it. Next guy pulls up the net partway, drops it, and so on. Is this a form of forgetting? Many [&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":[2643,3108,131,2029,2245],"class_list":["post-15633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-burak-cevik","tag-memory","tag-robert-greene","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633","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=15633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15646,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions\/15646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}