Come Back to the Trees may be Adler’s most elusive, evocative and effective film to date. Though still relatively minimal in means it features more dynamic cutting, camera movement and a larger cast than any of her other work. To a driving tribal beat, a convocation of very nubile women dressed primarily in short white shifts perform an enigmatic and possibly lethal ritual in the solitude of a picturesque Eastern European forest. The camera Pans and tracks, veering and circling, then cutting into close ups of the women’s hands bearing small mounds of brain tissue in white muslin, carried with deliberate gravity, lifted to sensuous faces to be sniffed and tasted. The images frequently loses focus, the blurred perspective suggesting an intensity of experience that threatens to overwhelm the consciousness or the presence or possibly the presence of hallucinogenic aids to exaltation warping the unseen witnesses’ organs of perception. from THE AMBIVALENT BODY: ON THE SHORT FILMS OF MONIKA K. ADLER by Robert Smart https://vimeo/64444605
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:45:03 +0000
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