{"id":550,"date":"2008-04-18T01:14:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-04-18T01:14:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:14:55","slug":"sshtoorrty-2005-michael-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/550","title":{"rendered":"Sshtoorrty (2005, Michael Snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aka Short Story, but I <strong>much<\/strong> prefer the above title.  I even prefer the title to the movie itself, though the movie is pretty cool too.  A two-minute loop of a four-minute scene, the first and second halves playing at the same time, with neat overlapping of color and audio.  The scene was hard-subtitled (dialogue in Farsi), so even the subtitles overlap.  Then the scene repeats, presumably about 10 times, though my downloaded copy broke after about six.  I thought that was sufficient.  The set looks like the <em>Presents<\/em> set, with that staginess and simple color washes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/sshtoorrty1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Snow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writing about my films has sometimes discussed the &#8216;narrative&#8217; aspect or &#8216;reading&#8217; of some of my &#8216;pictorial&#8217; nature, which is much more important.  Reflecting on this, I realized that I have never wanted to make a purely narrative film, never had and therefore perhaps I should.  Perhaps I should finally make a film that really tells a story.  Thus &#8216;SSHTOORRTY&#8217;. &#8230; The film of the &#8230; scene was cut exactly in half and the two halves of sound and picture as super-imposed.  This makes a simultaneity of actions that occurred &#8216;linearly&#8217;.  Before and After become a Transparent Now.  Arrival and Departure are united.  It&#8217;s truly &#8216;filmic&#8217;, one transparent film over another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/sshtoorrty2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aka Short Story, but I much prefer the above title. I even prefer the title to the movie itself, though the movie is pretty cool too. A two-minute loop of a four-minute scene, the first and second halves playing at the same time, with neat overlapping of color and audio. The scene was hard-subtitled (dialogue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,264,263,76,261,21],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-avant-garde","tag-color","tag-farsi","tag-michael-snow","tag-overlap","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}