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Thursday, 21 August 2014

The Sound of Claudia Schiffer (2000)

An experimental short by Nicolas Roeg that owes a debt to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1978) and if I'm not mistaken there’s some Chris Marker in there too. It’s a merger of images, depicting the big and the small, contrasting and comparing the mundane and the profound in the universe and in the individual. Over the imagery, but not commenting directly on it, is a female narrator that I'm guessing is Schiffer delivering something resembling a friendly Penny Rimbaud poem. Music is by Adrian Utley of Portishead. It’s difficult to rate because it’s so abstract, but I never once felt like turning it off, so I'm going wholly subjective for the scoring.

3 space lights out of 5

1 comment:

cuckoo said...

It’s difficult to rate because it’s so abstract but I never once felt like turning it off, so I'm going wholly subjective for the scoring.

They said the same thing about Midget Clown Porn.