Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

Stunning, genuinely new-seeming Sergei Parajanov, 1966
looks stunning, use of hot, saturated colours on barren landscape
different skin tones from usual
low contrast, low key lighting? Use of deep focus, but no real sensation of depth
wide angled lenses
shot often handheld, from underneath
absolutely no continuity, no one-eighty rule
no scene to scene matching graphically, almost none narratively
great advance is use of space
not composed symmetrically, disorientates, genuinely exciting
makes one have to postulate off screen space
use of discordant sound, comes from all angles. Music disorientates
constant movement, characters (non continuity) intrude from outside frame)
constant references to what is not in the frame
creates sense of camera not creating space, but in space
use of non-symmetrical, lack of continuity, manages to do this
feels as though genuinely part of the world
maybe only cinema can do this; makes this film at the heights of the cinema
use of fragmented space/ assymetry in a less cool manner than Antonioni, but not dissimilar
watched by Fellini, likely, but use of wide angles more dreamy, more movement
the deep space without space, constant intrusions, make this a true dream
the associational story builds up with spectacular images
a sensational film, pushing at what we believed cinema can be