Tribulation Lost article? - |ˌtribyəˈlā sh ən|

First, respond to Tribulation 99 in relation to Zryd's description of student responses in his own classes.

Michael Zryd, “Found Footage Film as Discursive Metahistory: Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99”

1. Explain Paul Arthur's distinction between the "realist" use of found footage and the "figurative" use of found footage. Which becomes important in Tribulation 99 and why?

I cant seem to find the article??

Marc Masters, “The Offenders: No Wave Cinema”

2. Name at least three similarities between the punk music scene and the punk/no-wave filmmaking scene, in terms of technology, style, and community.

No wave filmmakers were all about cheap and easy means of film production just as the punks were without their means of musically production. He campers the slide guitar to a super 8 camera. The musician and filmmakers were often untrained, and used each other mutually. Musicians would stand in as actors and the filmmakers would make music videos or documentary in the punk tradition for the musicians. The films were often made very quickly in a "run and gun" style much like the aggressive unpracticed punk music.

William Wees, “Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm”

3. According to Wees, what are the 5 characteristics of the modernist paradigm dominating North American avant-garde filmmaking before the 1980s?

These characteristics include fluild handheld camera movement, slow motion, negative images , super imposition, extensive close ups and light and dark patterns.


4. Given the 5 characteristics above, how does Awhesh reject or question each of them (give examples from throughout the article). Awhesh wasn't about the idea of high art. He films were often improvisational. She even refers to herself and an under schemer. He films had the a ingrained raw type of feeling. He camera work was far from fluid, it was very jerky and spontaneous.

5. What does Ahwesh mean by rejecting the “aesthetics of mastery” and how is this related to punk filmmaking?

This is her way of saying shes not out there to make 'high art'. He films were that of a non-professional aestectic and style. The whole idea of punk was to go against the establishment, therefore punk film would in tern go against the established film doctrine as well.

6. Why does Wees argue that The Color of Love subverts conventional wisdom about mainstream pornography?

She said mainstream pornography revolves around the phallus, but Ahwesh forcuses this found footage around a flaccid penis. This symbolizes the stripping of power from the erect male penis and reducing it to be powerless.

7. In what ways does Awhesh transform images from Tomb Raider in She Puppet?

Awhesh attempts to resist the bang bang run run persona the is Laura Croft from the video game Tomb raider. She sublimeness the soundtrack with first person feminist literature and spoken word. As opposed to being able to control the character like in the video game Awhesh has planned out specifically where laura will go. This another way she takes the power away from the male dominated industry.