Film/TV2: Analysis/Reflection: Q3

In this week’s lecture, scenes from Scott Ruo’s ‘Four Images’, Brian Hill’s ‘Drinking for England’ and Chantal Akerman’s ‘D’Est’ were screened.  Choose one of these, and consider, in a single paragraph, what might have intrigued, interested, displeased or repelled you.

In Brian Hill’s ‘Drinking for England’, the thought of using music and poetry to convey meaning in a documentary somehow conflicted with my inner filmmaker. Despite the idiosyncratic construction, I somehow managed to see meaning through the successful portrayal the relationship between a man and his unsettling conventions. To me, it brought a sense of accomplishment, for understanding something that I do not fancy. Ultimately, it left me perplexed at the level of complexity a documentary could be.