Morning Procession In Yangchow
A young girl drying her hair; a woman wringing a cloth washed in the river; a funeral in the early yellow light.
Dan Barnett
Director
Also Directed by Dan Barnett
The second film in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy
Although constructed from thousands of still images of Chicago, ENDLESS maintains a complex relationship to the photographic image. Time and space seem to compress or implode into a contradictory experience - one which is fluid, yet static, sculptural, yet two-dimensional, of the present yet of the past. The images are layered both horizontally and vertically, creating 'endless' variations of time and space which are unable to be contained within the fixed boundaries of the film frame.
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The film I made from Gary Henoch and Harlow Robinson’s footage, An Anagram is not a documentary at all, but rather a poetic essay on the impact of the sudden collapse of a belief system on a culture. It has a 17 part quasi-musical structure inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues that at times ignores the literal meaning of certain interviews for the fragrant affect of the language and body language; that is, certain interactions are left un-translated so that the viewer is given full and unfettered access to the musical spirit that animates the arguments and quarrels caught so delicately in the sound and images. - Daniel Barnett
"This video is about some of the people of Burma" -DB.
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Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career working in 16mm. These were not happy years for me and they are not happy films. They were all conceived as silent films and I was very consciously working out my ideas about visual rhythm and visual/musical form. When I had them transferred to digital I had the opportunity to see how they would work as sound films - How hard would it be to compose musical tracks for them that would complement their spirit without detracting from their purity as silent film compositions? I had lots of fun in the process and have learned a great deal from them about the interaction between the two modalities as kinds of musical expression. I will leave it to others to decide if they are successful or not.
Third segment in the Sweet Dreamers Trilogy.
"The images in this film were recomposed from photographs I took of street art in the Mission District in San Francisco." - D.B.
A Full Life is the sequel to the 1968 3 min silent film: "Anticipation of a Full Life" which was actually the first roll of film that I ran through my new 16mm bolex . "A Full Life" is also the first silent film I've made in more than 30 years. –Dan Barnett
