Story Congestion

In Uncategorized on 11 January 2006 with 1 comment

I recently saw an old friend and after we got caught up on what has happened over the last year, we shared our media lists. Have you seen…

ME: …Lost? You should rent it. It’s great.

FRIEND: No. I’m not going to do it.

ME: But, it’s not what you think…

FRIEND: No. Don’t have the time.

ME: I know.

FRIEND: How much storytelling do we really need?

As traditional advertising and marketing moves to good-ole-fashioned storytellling with all kinds of interactive goodies, we may all get so tired of stories. Maybe whole new genres of anti-story stories will emerge – where Gus Van Sant is headed. Do we really want movies for their stories? Movie stories are just containers for the deeper contract we make with cinema: a relief from the tyranny of narrative.

A remedy: yummy carp caviar

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Remember, Gus Van Sant is really just riffing off some pretty solid reference points (and excellently so, don’t get me wrong), people who have been pursuing the anti-story, as you put it, for quite some time; most notably, in Van Sant’s case, Bela Tarr, but also, I would argue, people like Tsai Ming-liang and his ilk.

Posted by Matt on 11 January 2006 @ 8pm