the way i agree how these directors collectively craft a masterpiece to encapsulate the lives of people, their walks of life, and the day-to-day conversations they have. just how much a film never ceases to put an emphasis on typical people with typical lifestyles having typical daily routine and activities—a reflection of fleeting realities that transcend beyond multicultural society, hence universality as a collective narrative.

the way i agree how these directors collectively craft a masterpiece to encapsulate the lives of people, their walks of life, and the day-to-day conversations they have. just how much a film never ceases to put an emphasis on typical people with typical lifestyles having typical daily routine and activities—a reflection of fleeting realities that transcend beyond multicultural society, hence universality as a collective narrative.

4 arthouse stables and 2 relatively unknowns comes together in this aimless anthology which more then actually adding any insight into the State of the World proves that many of these filmmakers work a whole lot better as individual voices then a joint unit as in the case here. Apichatpong Weerasethakul opens the film with easily one of his weakest works and from then on it isn't pretty as we travel to a meandering boat story that ends absurdly and abruptly, a documentary that quickly loses any little intrigue it had to began with despite some interesting experimentation. However Wang Bing saves this from being a total waste with his brutal factory segment, a re-enactment less about making us believe in the make belief but about considering the ethics and legacy of what is depicted and how it has lingered on, easily the best short here, Pedro Costa penultimate short is a atmospheric if hollow drama and at last Chantal Akerman appropriately ends this nearly 2 hour exercise with a long, quiet and observant epilogue that may lack the personal weight or insight of her works but with its relative restraint and masterful use of cinematography it comes off quite refreshing in this pile but its just unfortunate it takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there.
I still don't get what this is about, all the shorts are uniformed consistently with ugly video cinematography that doesn't add much personality or challenge here. With the names attached it may seem promising on surface but trust me when I say its easily one of the most confused anthology I've ever seen, you began nowhere and you reach nowhere and its not for the lack of trying but its clear the filmmakers are more creatively forced then inspired put together like this with their perspectives often times clashing then adding to one another and the result is as uncomfortable and jarring to sit through as it is probably to make, besides for Wang Bing I'm sure as his short stands out as one that atleast seems to semi address the topic with something daring and radical. The rest is a hum into the night, you may hear some tones, maybe inspirations, probably echoes in the woods but its not exactly fully form music is it? Impressively lackluster and admirably disappointing as a whole

4 arthouse stables and 2 relatively unknowns comes together in this aimless anthology which more then actually adding any insight into the State of the World proves that many of these filmmakers work a whole lot better as individual voices then a joint unit as in the case here. Apichatpong Weerasethakul opens the film with easily one of his weakest works and from then on it isn't pretty as we travel to a meandering boat story that ends absurdly and abruptly, a documentary that quickly loses any little intrigue it had to began with despite some interesting experimentation. However Wang Bing saves this from being a total waste with his brutal factory segment, a re-enactment less about making us believe in the make belief but about considering the ethics and legacy of what is depicted and how it has lingered on, easily the best short here, Pedro Costa penultimate short is a atmospheric if hollow drama and at last Chantal Akerman appropriately ends this nearly 2 hour exercise with a long, quiet and observant epilogue that may lack the personal weight or insight of her works but with its relative restraint and masterful use of cinematography it comes off quite refreshing in this pile but its just unfortunate it takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there.
I still don't get what this is about, all the shorts are uniformed consistently with ugly video cinematography that doesn't add much personality or challenge here. With the names attached it may seem promising on surface but trust me when I say its easily one of the most confused anthology I've ever seen, you began nowhere and you reach nowhere and its not for the lack of trying but its clear the filmmakers are more creatively forced then inspired put together like this with their perspectives often times clashing then adding to one another and the result is as uncomfortable and jarring to sit through as it is probably to make, besides for Wang Bing I'm sure as his short stands out as one that atleast seems to semi address the topic with something daring and radical. The rest is a hum into the night, you may hear some tones, maybe inspirations, probably echoes in the woods but its not exactly fully form music is it? Impressively lackluster and admirably disappointing as a whole

4 arthouse stables and 2 relatively unknowns comes together in this aimless anthology which more then actually adding any insight into the State of the World proves that many of these filmmakers work a whole lot better as individual voices then a joint unit as in the case here. Apichatpong Weerasethakul opens the film with easily one of his weakest works and from then on it isn't pretty as we travel to a meandering boat story that ends absurdly and abruptly, a documentary that quickly loses any little intrigue it had to began with despite some interesting experimentation. However Wang Bing saves this from being a total waste with his brutal factory segment, a re-enactment less about making us believe in the make belief but about considering the ethics and legacy of what is depicted and how it has lingered on, easily the best short here, Pedro Costa penultimate short is a atmospheric if hollow drama and at last Chantal Akerman appropriately ends this nearly 2 hour exercise with a long, quiet and observant epilogue that may lack the personal weight or insight of her works but with its relative restraint and masterful use of cinematography it comes off quite refreshing in this pile but its just unfortunate it takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there.
I still don't get what this is about, all the shorts are uniformed consistently with ugly video cinematography that doesn't add much personality or challenge here. With the names attached it may seem promising on surface but trust me when I say its easily one of the most confused anthology I've ever seen, you began nowhere and you reach nowhere and its not for the lack of trying but its clear the filmmakers are more creatively forced then inspired put together like this with their perspectives often times clashing then adding to one another and the result is as uncomfortable and jarring to sit through as it is probably to make, besides for Wang Bing I'm sure as his short stands out as one that atleast seems to semi address the topic with something daring and radical. The rest is a hum into the night, you may hear some tones, maybe inspirations, probably echoes in the woods but its not exactly fully form music is it? Impressively lackluster and admirably disappointing as a whole

4 arthouse stables and 2 relatively unknowns comes together in this aimless anthology which more then actually adding any insight into the State of the World proves that many of these filmmakers work a whole lot better as individual voices then a joint unit as in the case here. Apichatpong Weerasethakul opens the film with easily one of his weakest works and from then on it isn't pretty as we travel to a meandering boat story that ends absurdly and abruptly, a documentary that quickly loses any little intrigue it had to began with despite some interesting experimentation. However Wang Bing saves this from being a total waste with his brutal factory segment, a re-enactment less about making us believe in the make belief but about considering the ethics and legacy of what is depicted and how it has lingered on, easily the best short here, Pedro Costa penultimate short is a atmospheric if hollow drama and at last Chantal Akerman appropriately ends this nearly 2 hour exercise with a long, quiet and observant epilogue that may lack the personal weight or insight of her works but with its relative restraint and masterful use of cinematography it comes off quite refreshing in this pile but its just unfortunate it takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there.
I still don't get what this is about, all the shorts are uniformed consistently with ugly video cinematography that doesn't add much personality or challenge here. With the names attached it may seem promising on surface but trust me when I say its easily one of the most confused anthology I've ever seen, you began nowhere and you reach nowhere and its not for the lack of trying but its clear the filmmakers are more creatively forced then inspired put together like this with their perspectives often times clashing then adding to one another and the result is as uncomfortable and jarring to sit through as it is probably to make, besides for Wang Bing I'm sure as his short stands out as one that atleast seems to semi address the topic with something daring and radical. The rest is a hum into the night, you may hear some tones, maybe inspirations, probably echoes in the woods but its not exactly fully form music is it? Impressively lackluster and admirably disappointing as a whole