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Alaska
“ALASKA is an emigration film, a dream of myself, the consequences of the act withsociety.” (Dore O.)1968, 16mm, color/si, 18m, for rent from Canyon Cinema, Inc., San Francisco for US $55“Could be that you would like this film which poses no language problem. The sound is justelectronic noises, no language. To my mind, a painter (or poet) could have done this film.It has a very quiet rhythm accelerating somewhat towards the end, with interspersed irritatingglimpses at paintings (a tiger head, a little girl’s face, people in front of the yellow tiger painting, a man’s face, the shadow of hands in front of the camera, etc.) interrupting the flowof water, waves, the coast – sometimes the coast UPSIDE down, sometimes greenish,sometimes photographed with a sepia-colored filter in front of the lens, the flow some archaicsymbol of life perhaps, of streaming elements (the flow of data in our consciousness, indreams?);there are other shots where this element of motion is contrasted withslabs of concrete piercing out of the screen,their thrust towards us,hard and with well-defined corners;again there are shots of persons (almost always a young woman)running at the beach,sometimes walking very slowly,as if in (again) a dream,down a pier,into a landscape of silence, of loneliness;the sea seems to be filled with icefloating, as she walksdown the pier, we seeshe has alreadyleft it, seems to walk on into the lonely landscape, the distinction between pier and beach or seahas been wiped out,at least it has become blurred,she gets lostwalking on the water,disappearing in the distance wherethere is a cutand the next sequence begins.At another time we see her walkingdown the pier, and at the same time,
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