Silver balls / art history: Berlin review
>> Tuesday, 1 March 2011
A cumbersome double whammy scrappy, medium, no. budget indie films on the subject of navel-gazing scrappy, no-budget, indie-m.
Joe Swanberg
Kate Lyn Sheil, Joe Swanberg, TI West, Amy Seimetz, Larry Fessenden, Josephine Decker, Kent Osborne
BERLIN - the all directors with the much-discussed Mumblecore movement in the last independent American cinema are connected, is certainly not as productive, persistent or advertising savvy as Joe Swanberg. His efforts "Diptych" silver bullets and history of art world premiere here as bad advice, suggest 145-minute double bill - taxation, its meaning is more due to these practical attributes as one remarkable talents as a writer, Director, cinematographer, and editor.
Each featuring Swanberg as Director of shoestring indie - we often see it in enlarged close-up, bent on his computer editing suite - which is not really complement two films each other on a significant to. So each stands a better chance of exposure as a stand-alone effort.
Even then you are specialized certainly American fare fight to edgy from the Festival, hipsterish, off-radar. Their best chance, probably located on the Internet exposure and distribution with copious nudity and pretty explicit sex scenes can boost appeal in such sectors.
Taken together as a double bill, offer an overdose self-referential, self-reflexive excess unattractive to look and listen to with their rough audio and low-grade video visuals. On the way we some very volatile insights into the creative process, and (above all in the history of art) in contemporary personal relationships get, but overall this is hard work for limited reward.
In silver bullets Swanberg is linked to the screen by several other directors, within the independent scene, including the House of the Devil's TI West play a slightly fictionalized version of himself, on a werewolf movie working are known. The lead female role in the film in a movie (attractive Kate Lyn Shiel) found in one affair drift with your easy-going Director. It is easy to sympathize with such a movement as your friend a personality by indie filmmakers is played by Swanberg, with consistently whining dialogue.
"Movies me not make happy", mopes he. 'Their success not me happy make, and their failure make me happy...' I have no goals... "I don't care." Of course, for the audience, who know that Swanberg itself plays a role, this is all part of an interlocking series of complex meta-fictional gambits and in jokes that moments of mirth offer occasional.
Still gives its choppy cut between the different layers of film-in the film (probably with the intention of interfaces between reality and fiction explore) decreasing rewards. The low point comes in one particularly the cheesy climax with a bloody werewolf attack and degree with Swanberg's alter ego considering a drastic and lasting solution for its sea of woe artistic dissatisfaction.
In the course of the film is ominous strings heavy music of Orange mighty trio provided, excessive try to unify the different modes of storytelling.
(Despite his title pretentious, never type explains history is perhaps inevitable) more focused and disciplined than its predecessor. The loquacious "action" is almost exclusively on a single set, such as two actors in what a porn film, or perhaps a misguided art film with porn elements could be run. And while the actor in silver bullets here, hardly more than chess pieces in the overall design Swanberg were Josephine Decker and Kent Osborne at least get, their characters to the performances of brave self-exposure to a large extent to explore.
While your "fictional" is cumbersome and eminently not erotic lovemaking, expanded their intimate chats between nimmt--where a real romantic sparks work very well as examples of the development seems Improv.
Swanberg resist not undermine his own film momentum, but pierce the mood with shots of even mulling the editing process. If Swanberg further progress, it should be in an external editor, certainly a more would take bring ruthlessly lenses approach for these ungainly raw material.
Venue: International Film Festival Berlin (Forum)
Production: Swanberry productions
Silver bullets
Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil, Joe Swanberg, TI West, Amy Seimetz, Larry Fessenden, Jane Adams
Director/Sceenwriter/producer/director of photography/production designer/Editor: Joe Swanberg
Music: Orange mighty trio
Sales: Swanberry, Chicago
No review, 69 minutes
History of art
Cast: Josephine Decker, Kent Osborne, Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingård, Kris Swanberg
Director/producer/production designer/Editor: Joe Swanberg
Screenwriter: Joe Swanberg, Josephine Decker, Kent Osborne, Adam Wingård, Kris Swanberg
Directors of photography: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingård
Sales: Swanberry, Chicago
No review, 74 minutes
