the nonfiction films of Harvard's SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LAB (Sweetgrass, Leviathan, Manakamana etc)

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I was toward the back for Leviathan, wearing an outpatient protective mask. Did p much nothing for me.

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link

I'll watch anything the SEL release. Sweetgrass was very close to being my ideal documentary film.

polyphonic, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link

sweetgrass is a grand pastoral
leviathan is a bosch
manakamanakamanakanaka is pretty funny really

to be clear, they're all different directors

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link

no, lucien castaing-taylor directed both sweetgrass and leviathan

espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link

co-directed i should say

espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link

I should def catch up with Sweetgrass.

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link

it's on netflix instant i believe

sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

MANAKAMANA now on Netflix streaming

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link

and video stores if you believe in such things

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link

<3 this movie, even if Leviathan hits my sweet spot more.

a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link

Rewatch value goes to the goats, tho.

a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link

i'm still fussily not-totally-1000% on these guys, yet, but found stretches of this really special & was kinda swayed into it by the end. the musical, tuning sequence was really beautiful.

nb i can't imagine watching this at home.

schlump, Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link

haven't seen a second time, but prefer the three metal bros and the two ladies eating ice cream.

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

i'm gonna have this playing on a loop in the background while i work methinks

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link

Sweetgrass is one of my favorite movies of the past 5-10(-15?) years. The excerpt of Leviathan I saw did not convince me to go in on the full length. Manakamana I wanted to see, but never got around to.

benbbag, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link

six months pass...

manakamana was great! we were dying at the ice cream sequence. i haven't seen so many walkouts of a movie in a long time. god, everyone might as well be on meth the way they can't bare to sit and watch something pretty and agreeable for two hours.

Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Friday, 27 March 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link

and it's not like it wasn't clearly advertised for what it was. i want to see these other films now. and the joanna hogg films that yall are talking about in that thread.

Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Friday, 27 March 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link

http://dafilms.dk/event/203-sensory_ethnography_lab/

Most of their films, including a bunch of shorts, Manakamana, Sweetgrass, Foreign Parts and the new Iron Ministry, is still streaming over the weekend.

Frederik B, Friday, 27 March 2015 09:53 (nine years ago) link

i didn't know about some of those films!
I don't think i can watch them on a computer screen tho; the ritual of being in a theater is what calms we enough to open to them.

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link


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