David Lynch

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Jim, I find "political" art ok if it is descriptive
>instead of propogandistic.  I mean Guernica is
>descriptive, isn't it?  Quite frankly, some of
>Eisenstein's stuff becomes propagandistic and, in my
>opinion, is horrible.
>
>Description is open to nuances.  Propaganda is usually
>self-righteous and "certain" of the truth.  The great
>thing about Picasso is he, along with others,
>overthrew classical perspective.
>
>Thomas

Comparing Picasso and Eisenstein is like comparing apples and 
oranges, though, as they worked in different media.  Modern paintings 
in the main, unlike cinema, are not twinned to narrative at their 
birth.

If you want to contrast narrative cinema with cinema that rebels 
against the conventions of story-telling, you might contrast 
Eisenstein with Vertov, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Trinh 
T. Minh-ha, and the like.
-- 
Yoshie

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