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  The Snowman 1995

  ★★★★ Rewatched 10 May 2024

  A filmmaker called Tina Laconte should get the credit for inventing the effect that makes this and many other Solomon films shine!

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  Rohfilm 1968

  ★★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr 2023

  Film fragments out of sync, overlayed, in negative, obscured by dust, dirt, glued, cut, re-glued, scanned, stamped, taped, re-scanned onto new tapes – not in that order.

  There is a bright aura to this work, beside the hard and almost constructionist opposite. It is saturated with ghost stories.

  The aesthetic unity among filmic trash of the same monochrome is such a given that it is a challenge to find difference. Yet there are subtle highs and lows, noise and silents,…

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  Chicken Movie, Chicken Piece 1972

  ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Sep 2019

  1. The artist holds her life, her death, her sacrifice, her victim...
  2. But the headless chicken is Jesus and mother earth(pick a poison) – the spirits on your plate, living past «life»...
  3. Not an art, but a murder, a dinner and the birth of humanity.
  4. perhaps the most morally constructive artistic act is to exercise one's own unshakeable immorality in the work?

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  Either Or Neither 2021

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 14 Nov 2020

  These are notes from a close study of the Sweet dreamer’s trilogy, watched in one sitting.

  It should be mentioned that Dan Barnett's own book "Movement as meaning in experimental cinema" makes a foundation for many of these thoughts, as it makes a foundation for the films. And vice/versa the trilogy of films anchors the text in a doing, and they entangle in very intricate ways. I cannot imagine the text without the films either.

  This book has swiftly become…

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