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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...world of iPads, iPhones, and Facebook,” Davies says, “face to face interaction and live performance are falling to the wayside.” Everything’s available on YouTube, but in “The Untitled Project,” the aim is to counteract this prevailing cultural current with an intimate moment that the performers and audience share...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Untitled’ Seeks Mystery | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...says producer Kevin J. Davies ’10, “the plot is not as important as the spectacle.” “The Untitled Project,” on the other hand, is driven almost entirely by the text—because its aim is not to merely tell a story but also to create a relationship...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Untitled’ Seeks Mystery | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...story, however, is indeed important. “My aim has a lot to do with process, collaboration, storytelling,” says Videt. We live in worlds with so many excess stimuli, she says, but she adds that at the same time, “We are these storytelling machines; what draws us to tell each other narratives...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Untitled’ Seeks Mystery | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...film can, at times, become lost in its overly obscurantist mode. At one point, a single shot of a random red and black plane upon a white background lingers for at least five minutes. Multiple times, loud and abrasive sounds punctuate tranquil, motif-less scenes, with the sole aim to shock. It is in scenes such as these that the film becomes overly self-indulgent, relinquishing the aesthetic brilliance which is achieved through the subtlety of many other scenes...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW VISUAL ALBUM: The Sound and Fury of Animal Collective | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...accept the aesthetic eccentricity and allow oneself to be captivated by it. The film will attract endless speculation about its meaning, and its signification. But this misses the point. As Perez stated, “Don’t try to find a meaning.” The aim of the film is to achieve aesthetic unity, which it does...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW VISUAL ALBUM: The Sound and Fury of Animal Collective | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

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