Word: squid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...FIRST PERSON (Bravo). Filmmaker Errol Morris beautifully shot these profiles of odd obsessives (a squid hunter, an abattoir designer). In his trademark style, he had his subjects tell their stories gazing straight into the lens; their eyes were windows to the surreal...
...afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We peered toward the mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into the upper air, did we see vestiges of light. We lit a fire and talked awhile, and night descended. The storm never came. We went to sleep...
Aggressive with hunger, the whining chick bites its parent's bill to stimulate her into regurgitating her payload. The adult hunches, retching, pumping out fish eggs and several squid. The chick swallows in seconds what its parent logged 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to get. The chick begs for more. The adult arches her neck and retches again. Nothing comes. We whisper, "What's wrong...
...beautiful looking. Morris' work is not only fun--in an interview he talks gleefully about a coming episode, "Clyde Roper, Squid Hunter!"--but also artful, interspersed with haunting staged scenes like that of the cattle posed regally on a set in Grandin's episode. "It's the reverse of Unsolved Mysteries, where the narrator says, 'She walked through the door,' and a woman walks through a door. I try to capture an idea in images. It's dreamscape...
...continue First Person (he's finished 11 episodes), saying it's a relief from the long process of making feature documentaries: "I've always had more ideas than time." With his new outlet, he sounds as excited as a guy who's just landed a really, really big squid...