THTRFLM 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Direct Cinema, Sally Potter, Cinematic Techniques
10 Apr 2016
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Representaion of women, issues raised in daughter right and orlando. Accessible: elements of direct cinema and women talk about being daughter, home movies for people of certain age relate too aestheically. Lived experiences and events represented are familiar, they are put across is experimental. Mother and daughters are in the movies, absence of father suggest movie making dominance. Mother and daughters are subject of the camera. Objects of the fathers gaze (male gaze) performing for the camera. Childhood captures in slow-mo, daughters and mother walking down street. Path that your mother walks, constant pull and told what to do, and as she went through her home movies, these moments that for her spoke to emoional memory as a child. Proper feminine , hair up in curlers doing dishes, patriarchal femininity. Camera creates reality, to reality of what"s actually happening. Forces us to think direct cinema, reality before us, consider how images are choices by.
