“The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.”
Kelly Reichardt
To celebrate the release of FIRST COW, we commissioned a visual essay spotlighting Kelly Reichardt's incredible work thus far.
Written, directed and edited by Chrystel Oloukoï, this short form essay explores: "Reichardt's slow, sensuous camera as an attainment to the reverberations of the long disaster of settler-colonialism, in its socio-economic, environmental and metaphysical dimensions, at the micro scale of the quotidian of primarily white characters. Slowness is the melancholic mood of a neoliberal moment charged with suspended and festering aspirations, disillusioned with the linear telos of big plans and big narratives, but still, mourning them.
As she undermines cinematic genres foundational to national mythologies, her films gesture at alternative ethics of relation in a disenchanted world."
(With Closed Captions)
Brief scenes of nudity feature in the piece.
Website: www.chrysteloloukoi.com
Twitter: @_Onikoyi
Instagram: @chrystel.nyx
With thanks to MUBI
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21 авг 2024