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Once out of the dark room, Lieberman gravitated toward sculpture and video. Her first video, “PATTY,” takes its subject matter from the security-camera footage of Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), robbing a bank along with her captors. The piece incorporates aspects of the SLA’s manifesto, fairy tales, 1970s horror and science-fiction film, TV news interviews and would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas’ radical feminist “SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto...
...addition to protecting students’ checking balances, we hope that the College will line up appropriate security measures, such as a security guard and a camera...
...this wasn’t my job I would be doing this anyways for free,” he said. “My advice to anyone is sit down and write, get some friends, borrow a camera, borrow whatever and don’t make it fancy, just trial and error. Just make little films. That’s what I’d be doing in my apartment if I wasn’t doing this. Just find what you love and work your...
...complicates itself further and further. It does not take long for the incessant action to turn into monotony. Viewers are presented with painfully gory scenes set to painfully sentimental music, for painfully long periods of time. But those scenes make no gesture at self-awareness; instead, the camera takes a step back and gives viewers a lot of time to contemplate the violence, making the scenes tedious, slow, and overwrought...
Many of the scenes look bland, giving the impression that those same shots have already been done before in other films, only better. The style of the film is somewhat reminiscent of episodes of “Law and Order” in the way the camera films investigators walking around a city talking about crime. And indeed, Campanella directed several episodes of the show. Imitating the visual style of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Campanella frames some shots with dramatic red curtains and varies shots between warm and cold colors, but he does not use the effect consistently...