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	<title>snowblood&#039;s parasol &#187; film</title>
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		<title>working i.thou</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2012/01/working-i-thou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drawclose/6746411501/" title="Ripley-torches-lab-151 by draw.close, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6746411501_42c9f41484.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Ripley-torches-lab-151"></a>

still : ripley torches lab (from i.thou 2012)

I'm at a 40 minute rough cut of the work I started in 2009. At some point I calculated it takes roughly 20 hours to make a single minute of footage. Now that I'm seriously working the audio, the time involved has gone up yet again. ]]></description>
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		<title>stills : i.thou worksample 9.11</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/09/stills-i-thou-worksample-9-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stills from the long form animated film, i.thou. Work has been in progress since 2009. Currently, it takes about 20 hours per minute to create the silent film. The score, keyed to the film, comes second.]]></description>
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		<title>We have come to the place where our fiction tells truth more than our fiction that claims to tell the truth</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/05/parallax-zodiac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have come to the place where our fiction tells truth more than our fiction that claims to tell the truth. 

Backdrop of paranoid tension, in each film. That paranoia the edge found between the rich darks and clear yellows.]]></description>
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		<title>poetics of annihilation : untitled (Iraq) by richard mosse (2009)</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2011/03/untitled-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[poem made of place-names from the Iraq war and closely-shot images of war's desert(ed) refuse.]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty good, for a human : Ripley as Durga</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/10/pretty-good-for-a-human-ripley-as-durga/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/10/pretty-good-for-a-human-ripley-as-durga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[feminine journey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durga : n (Hinduism) the goddess Parvati portrayed as a warrior: renowned for slaying the buffalo demon, Mahisha. :: The enemy at the heart of the film Aliens are profoundly terrifying creatures. The gory possessions, devourings, consuming of human bodies in order to live point allegorically to possession and exorcism stories, but with absolutely deadly results - no human ever survives an alien possession.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fool Reversed, Part 2 : Wanna know how I got these scars?</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/the-fool-reversed-part-2-wanna-know-how-i-got-these-scars/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/the-fool-reversed-part-2-wanna-know-how-i-got-these-scars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can also file this post under "the poetics of annihilation : entertainment edition". Warning : this post meanders ... Batman's Dark Knight analyzed in terms of PTSD and childhood trauma psychology.
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		<title>&#8220;But who made animals of them?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/but-who-made-animals-of-them/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/but-who-made-animals-of-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snow day leads to revisiting Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, a richly symbolic meditation on the ultimate futility of war.]]></description>
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		<title>Cluster at PCA and Documentary Salon at Filmmakers tomorrow night</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/cluster-at-pca-and-documentary-salon-at-filmmakers-tomorrow-night/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/02/cluster-at-pca-and-documentary-salon-at-filmmakers-tomorrow-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a moment to plug the Cluster opening at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts tomorrow night. Ton of excellent work, all of it new, some pieces are enormous stretches for the artists &#8211; Connie Cantor will be unveiling a 14-foot behemoth of a painting made with layered veils of tiny marks, for example. Additionally it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the process of making : clint eastwood, 1988</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/01/the-process-of-making-on-clint-eastwood-1988/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Instead of running for cover in a sudden nasty rain a week earlier, he used the downpour to set a somber mood for a scene in Central Park in 1955, using Bird drenched to the skin as a metaphor. &#8221;Ninety-nine percent of the directors I&#8217;ve worked with would have been screaming and shouting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Film : Blanc De Blanc</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/01/local-film-blanc-de-blanc/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/01/local-film-blanc-de-blanc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local director Lucas McNelly and his team took a two-week filmmaking challenge and created an intimate poem of a film. I&#8217;d love to tell you the story; this would, of course, ruin the viewing experience for you. An unlikely love story between Jude (Rachel Shaw), a young ER nurse working at UPMC Shadyside, and Dave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>power of story</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/01/power-of-story/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2010/01/power-of-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 6-yr-old boy watches the original Star Wars film for the first time, while wearing his Storm Troopers helmet. He says afterwards, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this!&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>sourcing : eastwood&#8217;s Pale Rider</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2009/08/sourcing-eastwoods-pale-rider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://drawclose.com/snowblood/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood began mapping the long tempos of landscaped slowness, outbursts of violent conflict, and sideways humor, in Pale Rider. He establishes a landscape, a particular wilderness. The character he plays irrevocably interrupts and changes this landscape. The film is over two hours long. The length allows particular details of the central characters to enable the slow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sans soleil</title>
		<link>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2009/08/sans-soleil/</link>
		<comments>http://drawclose.com/snowblood/2009/08/sans-soleil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ms.snowblood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look, you can find the entire film posted online. Part of Marker&#8217;s importance to me is the transparency of the construction of his films, their explicit consciousness. Which does not interfere with the narrative or the poetry. Instead we enter his world, his process. sans soleil on wikipedia P.S. The meditations on memory, [...]]]></description>
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