The April 19th Images Festival Research Forum at TPW is now online. I watched it last night and there were only two edits, one at 1:00:19 (followed by a huge, unexplained sigh) and again near the end, at 1:19:34.
Below is the 8:50 minute opening scene of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970), where there are many edits and many more camera positions. I am never sure if this scene was an actual off-campus student forum led by Kathleen Cleaver, with scripted dialogue added after, or if it was scripted from the start.
The Images Festival Research Forum was designed to invite feedback on the festival's program and its behaviour as a social enterprise. One of the more resonant issues raised (by someone who told Images programmer Steffanie Ling "We don't care about your festival") was "radical friendship". In Zabriskie Point, the issue is how Blacks and whites can work together as revolutionaries to shut down the school as a next step in overturning the larger social structure.
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