"What Film is About"

That is the million dollar question, now isn't it? I mean isn't that what we all are wondering when we critique a film? Not just who's in it, or who directed it, but what the film was trying to accomplish. Hollis Frampton really raised this question (what film is about?) to greater lengths by illustrating with a projector of her own on what stands out in a particular performance to the members of the audience. Whether it's sound, imagery, acting, set design, whatever. There is something, some identifiable element that catches each viewers attention, or at the very least keeps them mildly interested for the most part.

As with the film "Natural Features", the director (Gunvor Nelson) used a lot of different images with the combination of water color in both movement and visual manipulation. He also added the eerie voices/noises that simulated into the darkness of the picture. These two elements to me, more than anything really defined the piece, because the in order for Nelson to maintain that sense of eeriness, he would have to continually manipulate the images, to make them more mysterious than before. The sounds and the movement added to that dark, encapsulating effect, but also made the viewer wondering when the film first began and when it ends. While the sounds are both random and often redundant, I would like to think the images are the most intriguing of all, since they are truly "unnatural" as the title might suggest. The images are constantly manipulated thru color, hue, saturation, etc. They are in context features considered rather "unnatural".