November 18, 2004 Complex Folding

This is the stuff I live for in my film life.

The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) is a Betty Boop cartoon that folds jazz and black dance into the person of an evil, sexually threatening cartoon man.

Private Teacher (1983) is a porn film made by Orson Welles' last collaborator. It is highly folded. Among the folds the sexual teacher quotes (as her one and only lesson) the scene from Hamlet where he advises the actors in the play within the play on how to have the right level of passion and abstraction. How intelligent a construction!

(Trois colors: Bleu (1993); (Trois colours: Rouge (1994)); (Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994)) folding of parallel pasts, presents, futures.