I’ve been thinking a bit recently about my hard-line stance on the analogue vs digital thing. I think I’ve mis-judged a few things.
The thing people are looking for is not necessarily the analogue thing. It’s the real thing. And analogue is perceived as real; whereas in reality analogue had no option- there were no alternatives, it just arrived first…
If you look at the list of Top 10 films from this year– the majority of them are sci-fi/fantasy/comic-book turds.
A bunch of them are of the “dystopian” wankery variety.
Today there’s a common notion that as a people, we are fucked.
Maybe we are.
The antidote to this is fantasy.
Nothing is real anymore.
Airbrush
After FX
Filter
CGI
I am not talking about film
“Real” film-makers like my personal favourites Mike Leigh or Woody Allen are seen as freaky alternative stuff.
Mainstream cinema-goers expect to be fooled. If I’m not lied to and fucked with I feel conned.
Music.
I wonder when the last piece of music that was recorded without being fucked with.
(Fucked with=pitch and time manipulation.)
Porn.
It’s the equivalent of the 70’s bush.
And the normal sized member.
Will there be a backlash?
I guess historically, an art movement opposes it’s parents.
The folk movement of the early 60’s – anti Rock’n’roll pop
Punk defeated prog-rock.
Grunge beat hair-metal.
Can someone please take the helm (and I don’t mean old 60’s/70’s/80’s rockers disillusioned with the status quo- by status quo, I don’t mean 60’s/70’s/80’s rockers – oops this is getting a bit Mandelbrot….)