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The State of My Life...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Someone is on the Corner of Ward and Baker shouting: "I saw Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster in a Flying Saucer!!!!". Pretty soon there's a "Get Down To Earth" gofundme and the city is building a landing pad.
The prophet shouts "They'll be here at 6:00 AM on Wednesday Morning". The whole town assembles. There are signs - "Welcome" and "Get Vaxxed ASAP" and "Medical Freedom is your RIGHT!" and "Loch Ness Monster Free Bigfoot" and "Bigfoot Free Loch Ness Monster" and these protesters gather on opposite corners, and there are other signs that read: "Having babies would be bestiality" and "Take our love into the stars" and "We hope you come in peace and are vegetarian".
By Sunday evening the crowds are beginning to disperse. Somebody is overheard muttering: "Bigfoot AND the The Loch Ness Monster...how could I have been so gullible!!!".
Don Hertzfeldt
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A very few words on the visionary animator Don Hertzfeldt.
Having watched "It's such a beautiful day", "The World of Tomorrow" & "The Burden of other people's thoughts" his animations, thoughts are ...
Well, you just have to see them. The above links to the trailers, you can watch all his films on "http://www.bitterfilms.com/" & let me know what you think.
Playtime - Jacques Tati (1967)
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A masterpiece, surreal-absurdist-comedy, every frame of this picture a portrait of people lost in a dystopian past/present.
While the Wikipedia offers spoilers it might also help you to figure out where you are in the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime
Like the central charcter - ish - Monsieur Hulot - you'll periodically find yourself lost in the labyrinth of glass, reflections & concrete. Lots to unpack here and rest assured you didn't unpack it all in the first viewing. Brilliant in it's photography, location choices, lack of meaningful dialogue - the background conversations that tune in and out, direction it took to have quite literally dozens of people walking and performing on cue, it reinvents cinema and yet - the reinvention ends here.
I'd highly recommended this.
Fall
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Turned leaves are now largely fallen, snow slowly creeps down the mountain, the chipmunks shaking down the nuts onto the pedestrians and cars. Don't loiter underneath the taller trees. Chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, acorns, dozens I can't identify, they seem to change brands street to street, every conceivable nut, which ones are edible? Which aren't? I haven't a clue. But fall is done, time to do a sweep up of leaves from the yard before the snow settles, and - there's no new place on the horizon.
Grim, grim, grim.
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