Ironically, in his quest for absolute purity artistic avant-garde modernism has only further reduce the investment the artist from the man in the work produced, so that it no longer has much to do with art, at least with the art as creation. It would of course be wrong to say that Brakhage creates nothing with his famous "Window Water Baby Moving," not least by the idea maternity (and paternity watermark) that materializes through the editing, framing, short of the realization of his film. But his short documentary film like more clinical than anything else: the share of record "target" of facts by the camera is oh so dominant on the construction element by element of the work by the artist. Brakhage is certainly playing the field, looks at his wife, attended the birth, sharing his apprehension, his joy or pain, but it offers us more of a "family film", a souvenir shot, a masterpiece The work of the 7th art, at least in my opinion. Because ultimately what did he say to us with "Window Water Baby Moving? That motherhood is beautiful, it's beautiful, despite the pain and the moments of extreme anxiety with which one must inevitably happen? I certainly do not give him wrong, but so far have we really need this footage to realize? I used also the word "game" to discuss how to make Brakhage, this is not trivial: one has the impression that he plays with his camera, he "plays" with truly he tries to be surprised by what he shoots ... That's certainly what all the filmmakers are in a sense, but not in this proportion il me semble. Car ici tout repose sur l'enregistrement d'un fait par la machine, puis après par la réorganisation des images enregistrées par Brakhage lui-même. Par la sélection qu'il opère, par les choix qu'il fait, je l'ai déjà dit il crée donc quelque chose d'une certaine manière, mais ce "quelque chose" reste d'une envergure réduite, relative. Il ne reste quasiment qu'à la surface de ce qu'il filme, il reste dans le particulier et n'atteint pas le stade universel que touche tout grand artiste digne de ce nom, ou s'il l'atteint, cela reste de l'ordre du truisme... Car créer de l'art ce n'est pas reproduire une "réalité" visible, objective is to go beyond, and that's the beauty of cinema! Apart from a mixed feeling of voyeurism and suspense, and of course the character that has any emotional delivery, "Window Water Baby Moving" unfortunately did not have much to share ... [1 / 4]
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