Kiss Response - |kis|

The film that I round myself engaging in or in turn somewhat disengaging in was Warhol's Kiss. As I had mentioned in class I found myself disengaging with the actual mouths and act of kissing. This may be be due to the point someone else brought up about the viewer not seeing the initial point of contact or maybe my own homophobic feelings (not that it bothered my all that much either way). Since we come in the middle of an action and there is now arch or build up I found it easy to forget exactly what I was looking at. I started to characterize each person in the film. The man eating the girls face as aggressive/playful. The Woman in the awkward asian man scene as submissive/shy. The man opening his eyes the entire time in the first homosexual kiss as unsure/curious. Although some of these could be in part of me seeing things that weren't really there I also found other trends forming. I began to label general traits throughout the whole series of kisses as well.The more passive individuals as mention earlier who were often opening their eyes tended to be on the bottom of the kiss, where as the more aggressive tended to be male and took up most of the frame. The positions and framing seemed to be very specific for each couple as well. The more intense kisses were famed very tight and the more awkward or timid seemed to be a long shot length. This stylistic choice really exaggerated each shot differently.

(It is much easier to write these right away hope you my timely manner for this response evens outs my late Jack Smith response Sorry again)