I wish I could tell you that in 2007 you will find every moment of Man With A Movie Camera exhilarating. You won’t. Even at 86 minutes, a little goes a long way. But there are sequences in this “kino-pravda” that are fascinating, playfull and just fun-to-watch. Almost a primer on “here’s what we can do with this thing called cinema,” the more effort you put into it, the more you’ll get out of it. Unlike, say, Koyaanisqatsti I can’t really glean a (for lack of better term) point to this excersize other than just as an excersize. I’m probably missing something. Last night’s live performance (presented by J. Hoberman) featured a fabulous semi-improvised score by two wizards of keyboards, synthesizers and apple computers whose names I never got. Hats off to them!
