Comments | greygirlbeast: "Sorrow's my body on the waves" (2)

greygirlbeast

"Sorrow's my body on the waves" (2)

Jan 30, 2012 13:25

Cold this morning. Cold, but sunny, 37˚F. Very, very windy.

Yesterday, I began a second pseudo-vignette for Sirenia Digest, and right now I'm calling this one "Apostate," though I'd like to come up with a better title. "Apostate" is appropriate, I just don't like it. One-word titles can get irksome, and I just finished "Camuffare." Anyway, I did 1 ( Read more... )

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andrian6 January 30 2012, 17:39:18 UTC

Lake Mungo is quiet, eerie in all the right ways, and deeply disconcerting. In the end, it's what all "ghost" stories should be - it's sad. Set in Australia, it's sort of like Peter Weir did a ghost story back in the 1970s. You should see it.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's one of the films I try and recommend to folks who have been burned by a bad documentary-style movies. When in the hands of artists who who are not there to cash in on a style or phenomenon, the sense of intimacy it creates is crushing and melancholy at once.

greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 17:42:31 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's one of the films I try and recommend to folks who have been burned by a bad documentary-style movies.

I thank you very much for suggesting it.

farklebarkle January 30 2012, 17:54:21 UTC

I loved Lake Mungo. It's one of the creepiest, layered, most interesting ghost stories I've ever seen. I watched it six months ago and still can't get it out of my head.

greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 18:12:23 UTC

I loved Lake Mungo. It's one of the creepiest, layered, most interesting ghost stories I've ever seen. I watched it six months ago and still can't get it out of my head.

I suspect it will have that effect on me, as well.

Lake Mungo ext_538675 January 30 2012, 18:39:16 UTC

Loved it, loved it!! I would have assumed you would have seen it long ago where I often look to you for tips on the "good ones". A very different approach and storyline.

Re: Lake Mungo greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 19:13:54 UTC

I would have assumed you would have seen it long ago where I often look to you for tips on the "good ones".

Lots of good stuff flies beneath my radar.

handful_ofdust January 30 2012, 19:09:21 UTC

I'd make a distinction between Blair Witch, Cloverfield and Lake Mungo, particularly in terms of narrative structure: Aside from events it covers being fiction, Lake Mungo is posed as a straight-up documentary. The people making the documentary never appear in it, they're never part of the story, but the narrative "voice" is theirs, completely; they're picking and choosing what gets in, when it gets revealed, how it gets revealed. And creepily, they appear to be the only people involved in the story who end up "getting" the one-two punch at the end. I kept thinking: Man, if her family came to the screening, I would've loved to have seen their reaction.

(I also love the time-distortion or dimension loop element of it--potentially present in Blair Witch, too, but utterly Peter Weir, and thus completely emblematic of Aussie horror in my mind. Yours too, though.)

Blair Witch starts with a bit of documentary narrative structure, but that's all Heather's--it's probably what was "cut" inside her camera--and thus when events catch up with her ( ... )

greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 19:18:10 UTC

I'd make a distinction between Blair Witch, Cloverfield and Lake Mungo, particularly in terms of narrative structure:

Agreed. In that we get the "straight-up" documentary, instead of the found-footage documentary. But I'd still call it part of the same phenomenon.

I also love the time-distortion or dimension loop element of it

Yes. Because, for me, if there's any non-psychological element to actual hauntings, it has nothing to do with restless "spirits," but "weak spots" in time.

The question, however, is always how did someone get hold of this footage, were they involved in making it, and who edited it?

Which, in a way, gets back to the "Why are you telling this and to whom?" problem I have with first-person narratives that don't explain that question.

kylecassidy January 30 2012, 22:05:46 UTC

Let's not forget Troll Hunter under found footage. One of my favorites.

greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 22:45:05 UTC

Yes! Love that film.

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greygirlbeast January 30 2012, 20:05:02 UTC

If I wanted to purchase the back issue of Sirena Digest that has the first part of The Alphabetos Triptych, which one should I ask for?

Off the top of my head, I don't know. I know they ran over six issues. However, you can find out what those issues are on my Wikipedia bibliography page.