@iycrtylph I think it is more like Elizabeth is agreeing to play along because she thinks she can manipulate the project to her advantage, so there is major drama to see whether Oppenheimer, Fielder, or Holmes will end up outscheming the others.
@jnchien I think the real drama here is not knowing which of these three will outscheme the other two.
Holmes, Fielder, and Oppenheim all have different aims, but will play ball with each other to try to bend the project’s meta-narrative toward their own agenda.
@nkalamb Isn't this whole tableau kinda fash coded? Nothing says resistance like an academic panel with a rigid dress code, compulsory visual conformity, and your personal brand advertised on a mass-produced plastic bottle.
@SewerSocialism If your rhetoric only makes sense with extremely selective framing and the most generous possible insider interp, it's simply never gonna be a significant political force.
@enniottefire I mean the critique is basically Punk 101: society manufactures ideas about is “valuable,” and you’re allowed to reject them.
But doing that inside a hyper-codified academic subculture with its own strict dress & language code kinda drains the argument of all its punk force.
@HowardLeaderman my prediction is the 2032 poll will be topped by Mood for Love. Kind of the perfect synthesis of what they were going for with the Jeanne and Vertigo picks.
@si_ad@duncanreyburn Performance art can be playful and goofy, and it has it's own history. Watching a five-second clip and immediately spouting off a grand critique of what’s happening is exactly the kind of low-effort behavior you’re accusing the artist of.
@JackSuggs711@TheCinesthetic It is wild that Antonioni left Italy to live in the scrappy fashion district of London to make this film. It's like if Luca Guadagnino decided to go spend the rest of the year living with a KPOP band in Seoul.
seeing The Sound of Music projected on 70mm actually did lightly change my life & my entire relationship to film. I received sudden enlightenment about film as captured light. I felt in each frame that this was a real moment in time and space, lovingly shaped, suspended in amber
@WB_Baskerville So much of 2001 makes you feel how slow and cumbersome our relationship to time is, so that when humanity finally transcends it, you feel what total liberation might actually be.