Jace Gace is hosting a film series, The Hidden Eye, wrangled by Vu Pham, every 1st and 3rd Sunday. 8PM. Free. Free is good.
The first film is Antonioni's The Passenger, part of his master trio with La Aventura and Blow Up. Italian director Antonioni (1912-2007) was a master of camera movement and color. He has many epic great films worthy of watching bigger than in iPOD format.
In this deliberately slow paced film, a journalist, played by Jack Nicholson in 1975, disillusioned with life, assumes the identity of a random person who dies suddenly in a North African hotel he happens to coinhabit. Following the unknown person's life path, and eluding the frenzied searches of his wife, the character is killed by unknown gunmen in a remote North African hotel. The gunrunner to African liberation movements in the day, whose identity he assumed, dies in a long tracking shot recorded in filmmaking history. In the shot, a camera on a track inside the character's hotel room approaches a bared window, which it passes through, to be transfered to a crane, ultimately returning to the room through the window.
Watch and learn how to break rules. At Jace Gace art, beer, waffles www.jacegace.com 2045 SE Belmont 8PM Free
