Low Tide: A Newly Restored Work by <PERSON>
“And even then...”
<PERSON> randomly liked one of my LB reviews and had he not done that I probably wouldn’t have known this existed so thanks, lol, this is p sick! As someone who digs <PERSON>, has a lot of complicated thoughts on found footage cinema (been hacking away towards a potential book on the subject for a bit now) and at one point considered faking the discography of a <PERSON>-like “outsider artist” for attention from hipsters and so-called “avant-teens,” obv I was into what this was putting down; my gut instinct was “ah, the prosaic narration is forced and affected,” which it quite literally is, but the meta frame device forces me to contextualize it differently - would I find it as affected if this film were actually from the early 90’s? Why is that? What’s the difference between this film being made then and being made in 2022, and why would I react to those two hypothetical otherwise-identical films differently? Of course, in addition to confronting my notions of how I view and appreciate “this sort of experimental film...” it’s also a pretty damn good one of ‘em, which helps! 83