2 FILMS by GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ-FULLER

Millennium Film Workshop presents:

2 Films by Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller

“The films presented here both represent attempts to work within the syntax of narrative fiction filmmaking without the financial or logistical trappings of traditional film production. They ask: what can the grammar of narrative film do when decisions which must typically be discussed amongst a team are instead worked-out without conversation, in the private mental space of the individual practitioner? I’m no longer sure how useful this inquiry is, but I feel it was worth asking given the changing nature of the film medium. We all wield film like handwriting now. We watch it anywhere, and can pause anywhere, like a book. Does this not shift the problem of pacing from that of absolute pace, i.e. dramatic expectations before a theatrical audience, to one of relative pace, between a film and itself? This is a theatrical screening, hopefully without pauses, but…