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Saw Shane Carruth’s second movie, Upstream Color, tonight at the Walker. \u00a0He made Primer, a film about time traveling geeks who become paranoid in the course of their travels. \u00a0It was a huge hit, cost $7,000 to make and got Shane noticed by Hollywood and film buffs. \u00a0It won the grand prize at Sundance when it premiered there.<\/p>\n
Upstream Color is another dense, need to see it again and perhaps again movie. \u00a0According to Shane, who was at the screening tonight and answered questions afterward, this movie began with the idea of a woman stripped of all those things that make her her–house, money, job, self-respect and then follows her as she tries to rebuild herself. \u00a0And this movie is about that.<\/p>\n
But it gets there through magic worms, pigs in Circe like relationship to a group of human beings, a thief and orchid harvesters. \u00a0It also gets there in a circular narrative that has no apparent center, no apparent antagonist and finishes with an ambiguous ending.<\/p>\n
Shane is a direct, humble, honest representative of his work. \u00a0And when I say his work, both films are his work to an extraordinary degree. \u00a0He writes and directs them. \u00a0He also composes the score and has a lead role. \u00a0He has also taken on the role of distributor, describing in answer to one question a film industry equivalent to the disaggregation of publishing I learned about it in my marketing seminar with Scott Edelstein.<\/p>\n
This movie was at Sundance in January and now it’s here in Minneapolis in spite of a limited release distribution schedule. \u00a0It was fun to see it so soon after the Festival and to hear Shane talk about his work.<\/p>\n
I realized I really enjoy being part of the Walker crowd, seeing and hearing things early in their arc, discovering artists as the world discovers them. \u00a0In the same train of thought I realized I’m really having fun translating Ovid, sort of the opposite aesthetic experience, one rooted in the deep classical past. \u00a0Then it occurred to me that I must really be enjoying life.<\/p>\n
But. \u00a0Over the last two or three weeks I’ve been feeling, if not melancholy, at least morose. Triggered by the back pain and Kona’s vet visits, yes, but still, odd for one who’s enjoying so many aspects of his life. \u00a0Including writing the novel. \u00a0I guess all this means is that we are not one, but many and some of me has a happy life and part of me has a blue life right now. \u00a0At the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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