David Brooks
The Wind is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1963-1969
Language(s) English
Artist(s) David Brooks
Author(s) Stephen Broomer, J.J. Murphy
Subtitles French
Booklet 48 pages (French, English)
Running time 87 min
Films
JERRY / 1963) 3'
NIGHTSPRING DAYSTAR (1964) 17'
WINTER (1966) 16'
LETTER TO D.H. IN PARIS (1967) 4'
EEL CREEK (1968) 7'
THE WIND IS DRIVING HIM TOWARD THE OPEN SEA (1968) 50'
CAROLYN AND ME 1-2-3 (1969) 90'
Description
"The Wind is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea is as poetic as its title. I find it one of the most interesting narrative films to come out this year. What's interesting is that David Brooks manages to fuse in it a number of different techniques that, until now, have only been used in non-narrative and poetic films—techniques such as single-frame, free and impressionistic camera movements, the quasi-total absence of plot, etc. The other thing I like about "The Wind..." is the fascinating melancholy that surrounds it. Its narrative of moods, reflections, things lost, gone, like autumn leaves—no tragedy, really, only a mood of melancholy, of sadness—of friends, lifestyles, vanished cultures, ages that come and go—these are just some of the notes the film sounds. Romanticism? Perhaps."
— Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal
"Inventorying his films makes no more sense than inventorying a Bonnard painting. It is through the lyrical flow of his camera, through his intuitive knowledge of the right length for each shot and the natural grafting of one onto another, that his statements about film take on the quality of poetry."
— David Curtis