Reading response 8

1. Punk music and the No-wave film scene share many similarities in terms of technology, style, and community. Crew for films were formed in the same way bands were formed: not necessarily by artistic talent but by association and friendships. Secondly the bands were forming out of a mentality of "if people who cant play the guitar can pick it up and start a band then why cant we get a camera and make films?" Lastly, the films inherited the same "devil may care" attitude that Nares says came from rock and roll.

2. Punk film was a reaction to the film institutionalization on the 1970s through the technology used and the ideology behind it. First, punk filmmakers used super-8 film compared to the usual 16 and 35mm in most film venues. This plays into the idea that anybody could make a film but also brings with it low quality and operating costs. Nare's also states in the pdf that they wanted to make movies like the ones made at the turn of the century. These filmmakers werent trying to copy fillmmakers of their time but rather the earlier filmmakers.

3. The filmmakers referenced as influences on Poe, Mitchell, and Dick are Godard and the entire new-wave movement including Truffaut, and Rohmer, as well as Warhol.

4. The venues affected the films content and style through the ways that the filmmakers wanted the audience to participate. At first they wanted a place where people could just be (smoke, drink, whatever) and then if the piece grabbed them they began to participate. But when Blackbox came out they wanted to make the audience feel trapped so they blasted the soundtrack and also included parts of silence. The audience seemed to play in the filmmakers mind throughout the entire process.

5. In the statement "Fake right, go left", Baldwin is speaking about the contrast between what is communicated through the words being said vs. the unspoken that develops from how/who/where it is said. "Double-voicing" comes from the meaning derived from voice-over vs the image on the screen.