Our Lips Are Sealed
- 2014
- 3m
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The point was lost on me, and the modern footage messily and unsuccessfully done
A very short film this one. Modern footage of a bingo hall is presented in snippets, showing women having coffee and playing the games, while the same time archive footage is shown of women working in factories, serving in the home guard, and other progressive strides. In doing this there is a certain directness in the juxtaposition of the few women we see in the bingo hall, with those images of a time when the role of women in society took a dramatic shift away from just being that of a home maker, to being one active in the workplace. I guess I am not target audience for such a point but I did have two fundamental issues with the film that really stopped it working for me.
The first is the core idea as represented in the modern footage because I am not sure what the point is being made. There are so few women in the bingo hall that it is not clear why it is being used or what the contrast or comparison with the archive footage is meant to be. The second is the way it was made; the modern footage is not great – it looks like they only had 5-10 minutes to grab the footage and looks like it was done hastily and took what they could get. Perhaps I am totally missing the point, or being overly harsh on such a quick little film, but this did not offer me much and didn't offer it in a good way.
The first is the core idea as represented in the modern footage because I am not sure what the point is being made. There are so few women in the bingo hall that it is not clear why it is being used or what the contrast or comparison with the archive footage is meant to be. The second is the way it was made; the modern footage is not great – it looks like they only had 5-10 minutes to grab the footage and looks like it was done hastily and took what they could get. Perhaps I am totally missing the point, or being overly harsh on such a quick little film, but this did not offer me much and didn't offer it in a good way.
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- bob the moo
- Jan 5, 2015
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