Arabic Numeral Series 12
A Pilgrimage, ft. <PERSON> (45/63)
Welp we're back to the visual exercises again, I, I really don't know what I can ADD to the conversation here, Arabic Numeral Series 12 (or, under the much more simple title 12, not to be confused with <PERSON> Russian re-imagining of 12 Angry Men that I'm more than certain would get me better mileage here) continues with the concept of visualizing the actual "thought process" without aid of senses already explored in The Process. 674
only instead of actual scenes manipulated and corrupted with to present an interesting counterpart to <PERSON>'s thesis, we have 𐌕𐋅𐌄 ᕓꝊ𐌉𐌃, some smatterings of colored light that only briefly shake up the vacuum of space, star imprints, and all of that claiming to adhere to a musical rhythm which I'm gonna call crock 'o shit for that claim, if this were music it'd be a funeral dirge considering how slow and bereft of life it is. I mean I get it, this is <PERSON> working in the most absolute of abstraction here and the studied themes here are meant to be the visual grammar for which light, darkness, and celluloid can bounce off of each other on, but I really don't know what it is I'm supposed to get out of this beyond admiring counterplay that's easily bested by other, earlier films in this pilgrimage and, worst of all, reminds me too much of Study in Color and Black and White's own dreary attempt at trying to communicate and instruct the minimalist visuals found in all cinema. Really hope things pick up in the final disc because I just can't work with films that only have a few star stickers and refracted lights to fortify a theme and call it good from there. 80