Week 15

This week we watched a film that was written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Damien Hurst. It was called breath and it only consisted of one long breath in and one long breath out. I absolutely love independent films, foreign films and any other off-the-wall films but I've never seen a film like this before. There was zero narrative and it was obvious that the film was not made to make money or to tell a story. On some level the film seems really inventive and different but at the same time it doesn't seem very hard to come up with. It just seems like it really doesn't take very much talent to come up with that. But I guess you could same the same for modern art and it probably isn't easy to come up with anything that hasn't been done before. The visual aspect of the film was really awesome. It looked like the floor of a hospital room was just floating in space and I have no idea how they did that. It was almost like an anti smoking ad in that the breath sounded really painful and difficult and the last shot is of cigarettes in an ashtray. The cigarettes are in the shape of a swastika which is death sign to me. I think directing a piece like this would be a really interesting job and I'd like to know how detailed the scripts for these films are and how much freedom the directors have in creating them.