Sunday, March 29, 2020

Contingency Plans

Joanna Hogg's films, which I've been thinking about and trying to write a little bit about for the past few years, off and on, are great for a lot of reasons but one of them is that they know how to embed ambiguous causality. It's easy to see potential reasons for characters' actions, but difficult to nail down precisely why they make a particular gesture or behave in this or that way. She's also absolutely incredible at composing images, whether in the natural world or in built environments, that hold some kind of mystery--pregnant with possibility, withdrawn, evocative of time before and after the image.





(from Exhibition, 2013)









(from Unrelated, 2007)

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