Fuses

1. As requested in class, post your response to Carolee Schneeman's Fuses. If you need a reminder of the film (which I doubt) a version of it is available here (as you recall, this is "not safe for work," due to explicit content)

I thought that it did seem to be similar to and reminded me of Brakhage’s Cat’s Cradle. It seemed like it was an Avant Garde way of looking at an intimate moment between a couple. I didn’t like what the article said about it taking thousands of years for “a woman to emerge and boldly turn the tables.” That the article condensed all of the past art of women by men into an object of masculine desire. I say what about the gay men who have had female muses, like Warhol with Edie Sedgewick. They do not desire but inspire them. And as a man I am insulted by this classification.

If you need help focusing your response, consider responding to this Schneeman interview in which she discusses sexual politics, in relation to your response to Fuses:

Nostalgia

This was an interesting film in the way he intentionally skewed the image and his VO of what the image was. At first I thought that it had been converted wrong and was not synced. I could see how people watching it in the theater might think that something was wrong with the projection. It did make me laugh a little to think how we expect certain things that are basic and if it not that way we think that it was a mess up or something is wrong.