More from Anthony Rousseau
June 22nd, 2006 by Monkey
Climax (2006, 6.2MB, 1:11 min)
We’ve featured Anthony Rousseau’s excellent work here before &
this is one of several new pieces you can see on his site.
I’ve focussed in on this one because I think it’s particularly interesting
in its capacity to be genuinely disturbing in a number of ways over a short spell of time.
Made from appropriated Prelinger footage, Rousseau says it is
“Une construction filmique dont la ligne directrice est la
traduction d’angoisses et de peurs infantiles…”.
Now, before I read that, I was thinking what Rousseau had done cleverly
& to powerful effect was to deploy many of the tropes of the horror genre
so we fear for, not with, the child.
But then I suppose many of those devices are indeed rooted in
our “peurs infantiles” & in fact we do both.
Smart. Smart, rich, good.
Originally by michael szpakowski from DVblog on June 12, 2006, 11:00pm
Posted in ReBlog | 