Friday, September 25, 2009

3 Films by Willie Varela: Green Light/Becky's Eye/Leaves of Glass. 1974-79.

(1/16/00)

These short pieces are all pretty much in the manner of Brakhage's abstract films of the 1970s. It sort of seems pointless for one filmmaker to make films in a style that another filmmaker has done so superbly. We really don't need Willie Varela making Brakhage pictures. Nevertheless, of the three I would say that Becky's Eye was the most enjoyable, with a lot of agitated motion and a few discernible images of an eye. (I would like to collect that piece by itself.)

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