I found some of this footage fantastic, yet the overall result with the pretty constant drone of the Kronos Quartet (I normally like their work) just somewhat uninspired and hard going.
I felt that a lot of the footage would probably have worked a lot better if deconstructed a lot more and broken up into a much faster paced collage of ever mutating sequences.
As stills many moments of the footage was absolutely beautiful and at points due to its bad condition and smearing effect looked like a painterly work by Stan Brakhage.
Aside from what I understand to be the natural state of the nitrate footage there was no other beauty to be found in the resulting film.
I felt that a lot of the footage would probably have worked a lot better if deconstructed a lot more and broken up into a much faster paced collage of ever mutating sequences.
As stills many moments of the footage was absolutely beautiful and at points due to its bad condition and smearing effect looked like a painterly work by Stan Brakhage.
Aside from what I understand to be the natural state of the nitrate footage there was no other beauty to be found in the resulting film.