Lets Go To Art School

[CwazyKat]

The absence of people is the point. It's about creating a space in which life has been destroyed. That's what the metaphor is all about, and the sound is used ironically. Formally, I really like the way the filmmaker works with the architecture in a really original way. It is quite beautiful, even if dark and brooding through the handling of the medium of film. The administration of S.F.A.I. wants to eliminate this genre of moving image making and the process by which it was made.

[malHHkenny]

Institutions try to protect themselves in self-defeating ways at times -- like trying to save a library by making sure all the books are on the shelves. (Memes with "minds" of their own.) The trick is finding a way to redirect that back to what the place is for and not get side-tracked by self-interest issues on any side. This sort of thing seems bound to recur, but the school remains after all, even if perpetually crippled.

[malHHkenny]

Bravo. Sadly, it was ever thus. Some of us tried to remedy much this sort of thing there in the late seventies, to little avail. (Others, at other art schools at other times as well, I suspect.) Best of luck. Make the discontent work for you and not for "them." ("They" too often wind up being us.) -Kenny Mann

[l2p]

By all outward appearances, it would seem that this film would have been entirely possible had nobody or everybody been laid off.

[CwazyKat]

Super Genius... Shame on those administrators there at the San Francisco Art Institute who fail to see the importance of this type of filmmaking!!! Bravo!!!

[JPWSF]

Absolutely Beautiful! I enjoy the remix of vintage sounds, the visuals and effects of the Coca Coca Classic film processing. Also very timely. Right on!