Well, this is a rather lovely fence. In all seriousness, the up-and-down spokes, the broken parts, and the roses do make a nice little allegory for a life--good parts and bad parts, uneven but regular in its own way, ascension afterwards, the movie ends just short of being pure blue sky (there's still a little power line on the right. Human technological evidence, yet very natural. A lot of rising hope in the end.
The song by Ella Fitzgerald is beautiful, but that should come as no surprise because it's Ella Fitzgerald. The rhythmic winding of the fence is a good simple match to the beat of the song, which is nice considering we're used to music videos that take a lot of time editing together imagery that matches the beat, but here something found like a fence in Anywhere, USA does all the rhythmic work on its own. This movie is also definitely one of the more pleasant experimental films to be made as many experimental films set to task to put the viewer out of the comfort zone rather than creating something quite so poetic or elegiac.
--PolarisDiB
The song by Ella Fitzgerald is beautiful, but that should come as no surprise because it's Ella Fitzgerald. The rhythmic winding of the fence is a good simple match to the beat of the song, which is nice considering we're used to music videos that take a lot of time editing together imagery that matches the beat, but here something found like a fence in Anywhere, USA does all the rhythmic work on its own. This movie is also definitely one of the more pleasant experimental films to be made as many experimental films set to task to put the viewer out of the comfort zone rather than creating something quite so poetic or elegiac.
--PolarisDiB