La Vie d'un Chien by John Harden; and, Blogger tips!

As I was saying in class Monday morning, the creator of La Vie d'un Chien, John Harden, created his film both as an homage to Chris Marker, and curiously, as a way of memorializing a particular and peculiar dream he had.

Here is the film to which Chien alludes; the YouTube video shown here is the first of three parts of Marker's film--it may take a bit of time to load.



Harden's website includes a trailer of Chien as well as a one-minute sequence; both appear here:





More information is readily available via the internet regarding the various directors and artists associated with the short film productions we witnessed last Sunday. Info on Rocknroll Cinema and Futureshorts is available as well.

dr. bill nericcio
professor y chair-elect
literature.sdsu.edu

ps: bloggertips; if you cannot log-on as a colleague of yours is using the site, don't hesitate to post your statements as "comments"--this limits your AV range for posting links, images, and films, but it still lets you get your comments in on time and saves on frustration. blogger accounts are free! if you want to set up your own blog and post your comments there and then link to them via our site, you are welcome to do that as well. one other tip! limit, or try to limit, your use of the first person--better said, use it STRATEGICALLY not GRATUITOUSLY. try in your blog entries to manufacture a critical voice that mimics what you might call anthropologistese.

for instance, instead of writing...

...we went down to this cool street, with lots of people and I saw a lot of things that were weird and I felt, like wow, this was really different. and i saw some film by some guy with that dog and it was different...

you might want to write an entry that is a tad more analytical critical

...the cineTREK to Bricklane on 3, June 2007 challenged the way one understands the mix of cinema and culture. While US culture lulls us to paralysis in the safe womb of mundane multiplexes, the RocknRoll Cinema, in collaboration with FutureShorts, wakes us from our sleeping inertia, and reveals a new cultural context where one witnesses film and people, in a different way. For example, John Harden's La Vie d'un Chien, doubles both as a comic parody of Chris Marker's La Jette, but also as a next-wave provocative fusion of beastiality and science fiction