Comments on: Watching Paint Dry or Dorian Gray by Jo Ann Kaplan http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/ Moving image transmission: driving debate and ideas around the moving image, film, art, animation and everything else. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ellie epp http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/comment-page-1/#comment-393 ellie epp Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:46:52 +0000 http://www.apengine.org/?p=2687#comment-393 jo ann, it's lovely to find you online in this form jo ann, it’s lovely to find you online in this form

]]> By: Gillian Lacey http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Gillian Lacey Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:18:31 +0000 http://www.apengine.org/?p=2687#comment-273 Brave and beautiful Jo Ann. It's so absorbing to watch. The fragmented sound fading in and out works really well. As Tony says it looks pretty finished. It's an important challenge to create beauty within ageing and to show culture does not have to reside only with the new and the young. You still have plenty to say! Maybe this is just how we can work now, an essay, an impression, something achievable without money and posted on the internet. Continual work in progress. Don't stop. Brave and beautiful Jo Ann. It’s so absorbing to watch. The fragmented sound fading in and out works really well. As Tony says it looks pretty finished. It’s an important challenge to create beauty within ageing and to show culture does not have to reside only with the new and the young. You still have plenty to say!
Maybe this is just how we can work now, an essay, an impression, something achievable without money and posted on the internet. Continual work in progress. Don’t stop.

]]> By: searle kochberg http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/comment-page-1/#comment-268 searle kochberg Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:56:13 +0000 http://www.apengine.org/?p=2687#comment-268 Jo Ann... Aging...Brave of you to go there! The film is touching, yes, but taken with the text funny too! There is something about the inevitability of aging that makes the work poignant and amusing by turns. We will all be "there" eventually, and the work communicates its messages well! S x Jo Ann… Aging…Brave of you to go there! The film is touching, yes, but taken with the text funny too!

There is something about the inevitability of aging that makes the work poignant and amusing by turns. We will all be “there” eventually, and the work communicates its messages well!

S x

]]> By: pauline black http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/comment-page-1/#comment-260 pauline black Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:58:12 +0000 http://www.apengine.org/?p=2687#comment-260 What a beautiful, sensual piece of work JoAnn. I can almost taste the bitterness on those lips as you draw them in ever finer detail, but ultimately the sweetness of being true to the subject matter shines through. The interplay of sound, light and fast editing is edgy and challenging. For some reason i kept being reminded of these few lines of Dylan Thomas's poetry: "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light" In these days when youth is prized above everything and many ageing women subject themselves to the indignities of knives and needles, vainly chasing the unattainable, it takes a brave woman to step up to the mark and simply say this is my face, these are my hands and I want to show you what is happening to them. It's almost as if Time is forced to look at itself. There is a dignity in the female ageing process and you have discovered a profound way to describe it. A work in progress indeed! What a beautiful, sensual piece of work JoAnn. I can almost taste the bitterness on those lips as you draw them in ever finer detail, but ultimately the sweetness of being true to the subject matter shines through. The interplay of sound, light and fast editing is edgy and challenging. For some reason i kept being reminded of these few lines of Dylan Thomas’s poetry:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
In these days when youth is prized above everything and many ageing women subject themselves to the indignities of knives and needles, vainly chasing the unattainable, it takes a brave woman to step up to the mark and simply say this is my face, these are my hands and I want to show you what is happening to them. It’s almost as if Time is forced to look at itself.
There is a dignity in the female ageing process and you have discovered a profound way to describe it. A work in progress indeed!

]]> By: Tony Dowmunt http://www.apengine.org/2009/11/watching-paint-dry-by-jo-ann-kaplan/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Tony Dowmunt Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:36:42 +0000 http://www.apengine.org/?p=2687#comment-253 What an amazing and touching film JoAnn - feels 'finished' in many ways to me - certainly beautifully structured by the move from daylight to evening and the moving closer in to your mouth .. the jagged, pacy editing contrasted nicely with received notions of 'slowing down' in old age, and there's a kind of unsparing but tender beauty in your focus - in the shots of your face as well as on the paper - on your wrinkles. Reminded me of Varda in the Gleaners when she focuses on her hands. Thanks for showing it. What an amazing and touching film JoAnn – feels ‘finished’ in many ways to me – certainly beautifully structured by the move from daylight to evening and the moving closer in to your mouth .. the jagged, pacy editing contrasted nicely with received notions of ‘slowing down’ in old age, and there’s a kind of unsparing but tender beauty in your focus – in the shots of your face as well as on the paper – on your wrinkles. Reminded me of Varda in the Gleaners when she focuses on her hands.

Thanks for showing it.

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