tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post114952521254504870..comments2024-03-09T07:19:46.311-05:00Comments on The Short Films Blog: Precursor's QUIETUSMiddentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-1149620429146803972006-06-06T15:00:00.000-04:002006-06-06T15:00:00.000-04:00The short really does gives a future style to it, ...The short really does gives a future style to it, but I do believe that the real experiment is in the CGI effects hovering around the meats. <BR/>To me they seem only necessary to gain visual for the pumping of blood, but yet they can show some form of meaning as well, like the beginning of life. The flowers do seem to bloom as a sign of life so the pumping of blood before is like the construction of life, followed by death with the spill of blood.Daniel C Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16848304669422683260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-1149570913349008192006-06-06T01:15:00.000-04:002006-06-06T01:15:00.000-04:00Fascinating short. On viewing it several times, I...Fascinating short. On viewing it several times, I started to get a "Frankenstein" type vibe from it. I definitely got the impression of some type of attempt to create life being represented here. The huge apparatus is the fruit of that attempt, and its failure is marked by the disastrous outpouring of blood. <BR/><BR/>I checked out the definitions of "quietus," too, and found the most obvious one the most fitting: "at rest, quiet, dead." My own interpretation (which may be a stretch) is that the word applies in the sense that any sort of attempt (by man? - we can most likely assume this apparatus is a creation of man) to assume the godlike ability to fashion life out of nothing or out of the artificial (i.e. "chords, cables, tubes," or any other inanimate objects) is "dead, at rest, quiet" on arrival. The unraveling of the apparatus here is thus inevitable, like a law of nature.<BR/><BR/>In terms of the technical, the dominant use of tracking shots from the start of the short almost foreshadows the eventual failure, since the slow, "spreading" nature of the tracking shots mimics the slow, spreading motion of the blood that eventually drains out of the apparatus, marking its failure. Anyhow, that's my two cents. Thanks for sharing this.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072767317386041233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-1149547848857433942006-06-05T18:50:00.000-04:002006-06-05T18:50:00.000-04:00The link embedded in the blog didn't seem to work....The link embedded in the blog didn't seem to work. I found "Quietus" here: <BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A9653439<BR/><BR/>I also discovered that "quietus" actually means something in the broader English context. It has three definitions, all seemingly disparate: (1) Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate; (2) Release from life; death; (3) A final discharge, as of a duty or debt. <BR/><BR/>The single word as title probably does more to add meaning (or at least clues to the author's intention) than the BBC's synopsis of the film. And, what's more, each definition seems to comment on the film. Death feels obvious, but a suppression or a discharge of a debt require more thought. <BR/><BR/>Thoughts?rhead: a contraction for redheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15693072148521323794noreply@blogger.com