Documentaries

LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF

Thom Andersen
USA 2003
169 min
V'03

Movies bury their traces, choosing for us what to watch, then moving on to something else. They do the work of our voluntary attention, and so we must suppress that faculty as we watch. Our involuntary attention must come to the fore. But what if we watch with our voluntary attention, instead of letting the movies direct us? If we can appreciate documentaries for their dramatic qualities, perhaps we can appreciate fiction films for their documentary revelations. (Thom Andersen)

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Thom Andersen 1735 Micheltorena St., Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA T 323 666 6977 icepickslim@earthlink.net

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