Next will B posting the IMPROV of my 1984 movie, EMERALD CITIES. Here's a little taste of flick, from a REVIEW from Letterboxd:
https://bynwr.com/videos/emerald-cities
Watched by Sid Collins 29 Jul 2024
Rented from Videodrome, Atlanta.
I try to go into films I have never seen with as little information about them as I possibly can, and EMERALD CITIES is one that I am especially glad I approached in this willful state of not knowing.
I truly love this movie. It is as close to seeming to be an “accidentally filmed” movie as I’ve ever seen.
The performances seem to be barely that, more just thoughts and conversations and moments captured by the camera, which always seems to just happen to be there.
Interspersed with real life news segments and concert footage from the time in which it was made.
If all of this is intentional, if all of this is orchestrated by the filmmakers (which it seems to be) it is perfectly executed, so vivid and real seem every moment of this constantly engaging document of the extraordinary stories of some ordinary people living in the Reagan’s America in the waning days of 1983.
A terrific piece of cinema.
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". . . this willful state of not knowing." What really intrigues me about this phrase, what it's attempting to describe, is how similar it is to describing meditation. So many talk about meditation as an entry point to "higher or other dimensions," for lack of a better description. So, to deliberately enter a meditative state, when creating art or experiencing art, does sound really inviting.