Salome

The Year Of Salomé continues to deliver. We saw Nitehawk was doing this night of obscure early Clive Barker shorts with live scores and it included his 1973 version of Salomé so we had to bring ourselves out to Williamsburg on a Wednesday night!

The Year Of Salomé continues to deliver. We saw Nitehawk was doing this night of obscure early Clive Barker shorts with live scores and it included his 1973 version of Salomé so we had to bring ourselves out to Williamsburg on a Wednesday night!

There are many directors or artists I wish I could see make a silent film but now am starting to doubt that curiousity cause while Salome as a young early film effort from Clive Barker manages to be effective it feels only half as good as what Barker can usually pull off. I think Barker’s strongest suit is his writing but this is also closely tied to film writing, his use of dialogue, use of sound, there’s a theatrical perspective to the way he employs them, not so visceral that you begin to lose the meaning of why things are happening but also not so removed that you absorb things mindlessly. It’s economic for only so nothing distracts you from the contents, ideas and themes that run their course through the films but here the silent film presentation is inherently visceral, there are no intertitles, this is a pure visual black and white presentation and while Baker has real talents in creating imagery obviously which is showcased here you cannot help but feel something is just missing, something to make these images beyond images, that’s when his work is scary.

There are many directors or artists I wish I could see make a silent film but now am starting to doubt that curiousity cause while Salome as a young early film effort from Clive Barker manages to be effective it feels only half as good as what Barker can usually pull off. I think Barker’s strongest suit is his writing but this is also closely tied to film writing, his use of dialogue, use of sound, there’s a theatrical perspective to the way he employs them, not so visceral that you begin to lose the meaning of why things are happening but also not so removed that you absorb things mindlessly. It’s economic for only so nothing distracts you from the contents, ideas and themes that run their course through the films but here the silent film presentation is inherently visceral, there are no intertitles, this is a pure visual black and white presentation and while Baker has real talents in creating imagery obviously which is showcased here you cannot help but feel something is just missing, something to make these images beyond images, that’s when his work is scary.

There are many directors or artists I wish I could see make a silent film but now am starting to doubt that curiousity cause while Salome as a young early film effort from Clive Barker manages to be effective it feels only half as good as what Barker can usually pull off. I think Barker’s strongest suit is his writing but this is also closely tied to film writing, his use of dialogue, use of sound, there’s a theatrical perspective to the way he employs them, not so visceral that you begin to lose the meaning of why things are happening but also not so removed that you absorb things mindlessly. It’s economic for only so nothing distracts you from the contents, ideas and themes that run their course through the films but here the silent film presentation is inherently visceral, there are no intertitles, this is a pure visual black and white presentation and while Baker has real talents in creating imagery obviously which is showcased here you cannot help but feel something is just missing, something to make these images beyond images, that’s when his work is scary.

There are many directors or artists I wish I could see make a silent film but now am starting to doubt that curiousity cause while Salome as a young early film effort from Clive Barker manages to be effective it feels only half as good as what Barker can usually pull off. I think Barker’s strongest suit is his writing but this is also closely tied to film writing, his use of dialogue, use of sound, there’s a theatrical perspective to the way he employs them, not so visceral that you begin to lose the meaning of why things are happening but also not so removed that you absorb things mindlessly. It’s economic for only so nothing distracts you from the contents, ideas and themes that run their course through the films but here the silent film presentation is inherently visceral, there are no intertitles, this is a pure visual black and white presentation and while Baker has real talents in creating imagery obviously which is showcased here you cannot help but feel something is just missing, something to make these images beyond images, that’s when his work is scary.

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