Such a treat to bring this print to Seattle, felt like I was staring directly into the eyes of God (after he took a hit of the opium pipe).
Thank you to all who attended the Pacific Northwestern film series! Until next time 😎
Shoutout to the Chicago Film Society for loaning us the print.
“Whatever it is that makes an artist look like an artist to the world is just a feature I don’t have.”
“Maybe you have to convince yourself first.”
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“When I think of why I make pictures, the reason that I can come up with just seems that I've been making my way here.”
::shows British newsreel footage mocking Lumumba’s arrest::
Peck: “The British Movietone News asked $3,000 a minute for this footage. One gets used to it. Everything passes, the images remain. A Congolese earns $150 a year. Memories of a murder are expensive.”
Chaotic? Maybe. Disorganized? No.
Having had the chance to read Lindqvist and Dunbar-Ortiz’s books beforehand, I was surprised to notice how Peck reads directly from the texts for at least 50% narration (hence the “A film by/With” credit). But with the film, Peck radically reorganizes the information, causing some unique collisions along the way. Scout Tafoya perceptively calls this Pecks “Histoire(s) du Cinema,” and it’s true: the arrangement is very personal and passionate, resembling a matrix of thought more so than…
