"Begone Dull Care" Response

Here is a somewhat coherent list of my initial thoughts after watching the film:

- Very rhythmic with the music. Reminds me of that guy who did all the colorful shapes and was very interested in making the film speak for itself by asking that it was not set to music. He also worked for disney at some point, and it was very apparent in the really beautiful colorful work he did. (Oskar Fischinger, had to look that back up).

-The medium of the film is very Stan Brakhage. It is all like direct markings on the film strip. The colors remind me more of his hand painting and drawing.

-It reminds me of the drawings we did as a kid where you paint something and then once it is dry you cover it with black crayon and then you take some sort of stylus and carve markings into the crayon so the color shows through.

-The film had "acts."The black and white middle part with just piano and the more lively parts with more accompanying jazz.

-It reminds me of modern art, with the colors and shapes, just set to music. Like Kandinsky

So there you go! My initial thoughts.