EAST 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fei Mu, Semiosis, Mimesis
20 Apr 2019
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Spring in a small town - fei mu. There"s a loop quality where the film begins and ends with the same frame. A retrospective narration is included the whole film. The film was made in three months, it was a side project to "eternal regret". This is a transitionary film; we"re starting to move away from a studio dominated film making production and reception influence. Eternal regret made by fei mu was the first colour film about an opera. The movie turned out pale, the soundtrack was off, delay between movements and the singing, in terms of fei mu"s career he didn"t really make films after this one. In terms of realism, the aspects of a performance that symbolise something rather than portray it for what it is. Imitation of a quality or a feeling or semblance. The tension between these two drives an interest in fei mu in this tension between theatre and film, types of theatre.
