Comments on: Phillip Van and Method Studios: “And She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost” http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Motionographer shares the best in moving media, from student work to feature films. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: borschhttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32783 borsch Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:48:30 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32783 haunting - i watched it this morning, had to come back to watch again and leave a comment. i can't stop thinking about it - it's visual poetry. haunting – i watched it this morning, had to come back to watch again and leave a comment. i can’t stop thinking about it – it’s visual poetry.

]]> By: taymourrrrhttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32697 taymourrrr Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:48:35 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32697 Beautiful and really sad. I haven't seen that before - the watery complexion, not like that. It worked so well to suggest what he might be to her. Beautiful and really sad.
I haven’t seen that before – the watery complexion, not like that. It worked so well to suggest what he might be to her.

]]> By: dbforeverhttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32390 dbforever Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:26:43 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32390 Hands down amazing. I agree, goosebumps and difficulty speaking. Really resonant in its use of stasis and a subtle yet deliberate pace. This one really got to the core of something and will stick with me for a long time. Hands down amazing. I agree, goosebumps and difficulty speaking. Really resonant in its use of stasis and a subtle yet deliberate pace. This one really got to the core of something and will stick with me for a long time.

]]> By: emmahttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32078 emma Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:18:27 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32078 If you want to see corny, you should click on these critics' orange login names and go to some of their own pages. Sheesh. For those of you who left criticism and don't have linked pages, I'm sure that's for the best - you'd do well to limit your creative output on the world. So, good work. If you want to see corny, you should click on these critics’ orange login names and go to some of their own pages. Sheesh.
For those of you who left criticism and don’t have linked pages, I’m sure that’s for the best – you’d do well to limit your creative output on the world. So, good work.

]]> By: bretttamblinbretthttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32070 bretttamblinbrett Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:23:19 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32070 Best Short of the series. Intelligent, rich with mood, unapologetically soulful. Best Short of the series. Intelligent, rich with mood, unapologetically soulful.

]]> By: badmojohttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32064 badmojo Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:44:21 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32064 I really liked this!! :) Just because something is archtypal does not mean its not creative. There is a powerful voice in this short, who clearly did a lot of research and took took a great deal of care with the subject matter. I really liked this!! :) Just because something is archtypal does not mean its not creative. There is a powerful voice in this short, who clearly did a lot of research and took took a great deal of care with the subject matter.

]]> By: nated.http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32061 nated. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:02:15 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32061 wiremu - please don't take your questionable taste out on americans. tits and marc b, just because imagery is familiar, doesn't make it cliche. I think it's pretty clear that these guys know the tread nature of this imagery but are choosing to use it anyway. That's the opposite of cliche, that's bold. There are more than enough hints of this. If you can't find them, you should watch again. The film is self-aware. Without taking this into consideration, tits, your logic is myopic. I can't help but think that at the root of your comments, is the difference between and artist and a technician. This was made artfully: the film embraces imagery that works, even when it risks the obvious, and it finds a way to distinguish that imagery from what has come before. I think just chasing after something "brand new" is a lot less original. That's the kind of chase that churns out a lot of trendy technicians. And you may be members tits, marc b., wiremu, but not everyone wants to join that club. wiremu – please don’t take your questionable taste out on americans.
tits and marc b, just because imagery is familiar, doesn’t make it cliche. I think it’s pretty clear that these guys know the tread nature of this imagery but are choosing to use it anyway. That’s the opposite of cliche, that’s bold.

There are more than enough hints of this. If you can’t find them, you should watch again. The film is self-aware. Without taking this into consideration, tits, your logic is myopic.

I can’t help but think that at the root of your comments, is the difference between and artist and a technician. This was made artfully: the film embraces imagery that works, even when it risks the obvious, and it finds a way to distinguish that imagery from what has come before.

I think just chasing after something “brand new” is a lot less original. That’s the kind of chase that churns out a lot of trendy technicians. And you may be members tits, marc b., wiremu, but not everyone wants to join that club.

]]> By: OlyLiViahttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-32060 OlyLiVia Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:38:10 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-32060 Wow - i think a lot of you guys are way off base here and don't pose well thought out arguments at all. After watching this short, I passed it along to many of my friends as I felt the same as Justin... this material really made me think! My friends came back with interpretations ranging from the woman having an abortion because her husband didn't want the baby and he appears as the "water man" stealing her little girl away to a young girl getting molested as a child and her older self still revisiting that moment even in her adult life to a young girl simply losing her youth while her older self looks back on the lost innocence. There are so many interpretations to this film that it's the opposite of a cliche. Now i'm not sure which one of those are correct, if any, but the fact that something like this can provoke such varying responses from the extremely negative to the extremely positive (as seen on this board!), i think it's doing something for filmmaking that few people can do. You go ahead and sit here talking back and forth about cliches but why not start a conversation just a tad more intelligent? I think the work presented here deserves that. Wow – i think a lot of you guys are way off base here and don’t pose well thought out arguments at all. After watching this short, I passed it along to many of my friends as I felt the same as Justin… this material really made me think! My friends came back with interpretations ranging from the woman having an abortion because her husband didn’t want the baby and he appears as the “water man” stealing her little girl away to a young girl getting molested as a child and her older self still revisiting that moment even in her adult life to a young girl simply losing her youth while her older self looks back on the lost innocence. There are so many interpretations to this film that it’s the opposite of a cliche. Now i’m not sure which one of those are correct, if any, but the fact that something like this can provoke such varying responses from the extremely negative to the extremely positive (as seen on this board!), i think it’s doing something for filmmaking that few people can do. You go ahead and sit here talking back and forth about cliches but why not start a conversation just a tad more intelligent? I think the work presented here deserves that.

]]> By: conceptxhttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-31957 conceptx Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:38:37 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-31957 well executed, the surprises... and I love the actress at the end... well executed, the surprises… and I love the actress at the end…

]]> By: ochyminghttp://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-31954 ochyming Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:31:19 +0000 http://motionographer.com/2008/01/23/phillip-van-and-method-studios-%e2%80%9cand-she-stares-longingly-at-what-she-has-lost%e2%80%9d/#comment-31954 @zilke I love that song, reason why I got The Brown Bunny Sdtk. I should have wrote music is the UNIQUE cliché, but only regarding the use of music in Hollywood to create ambient. In fighting each other I mean the music reduces the work to something you´d expect to see on MTV. @zilke

I love that song, reason why I got The Brown Bunny Sdtk.
I should have wrote music is the UNIQUE cliché, but only regarding the use of music in Hollywood to create ambient.
In fighting each other I mean the music reduces the work to something you´d expect to see on MTV.

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