Film snobs get on my nerves

Experimental and Silent Film was a serious misnomer. And I clearly didn't learn my lesson from last quarter, but film classes just seem to get on my nerves. I transfered out of Transnational Gaze, because the only thing we were gazing at was Thai films. And while Chang was interesting, the scope of the class seemed rather limited and not useful to me.

So I transfered into Film History 3 with all the other theatre kids. There is alot more incentive to go to class when there are 5 other people to give you crap for missing. On the flip side, there are more people to fill you in on what you missed. I think we should start going in shifts, because so far, this is just a waste of time. The professor decided he wanted to look at New German Cinema and other films from the 60s and 70s. Meh. Like I get it, the Germans had post-War angst. Last week we were subjected to Marianne and Juliane, which was possibly the single most annoying movie I have ever seen, even more than A.I.! It's a movie about a doormat.

Today we got to discuss the most annoying movie and watch more German Angst. There was a scene with a "doctor" holding a newborn by the hands. It just made me cring because he wasn't supporting the baby's head. That was before walking over to a guest lecturer who has done Hollywood editing. Who pretty much just showed us a really poorly produced interview with the Academy Award Nominated editors from last year. Part of it was kinda interesting, but not enough to hold my fascination for 2 hours. Because really, when it all comes down, I really don't care.

Perhaps I would be more inspired to care if film people weren't such snots towards theatre people, who they consider beneath them and totally irrelevant to film. It's frustrating, because I appreciate film and the fact that it is a separate art form. But I also appreciate that theatre lead to film, and that I feel that all the arts are interconnected. I love talking to other artists, dancers, sculptors whatnot. But somehow, film people just get on my nerves.

As an antidote to the "high art" films, I am watching Project Runway.