heirloombabydoll: The Black Tower (1987), dir. John SmithExperimental film in which a narrator belie
heirloombabydoll: The Black Tower (1987), dir. John SmithExperimental film in which a narrator believes a black tower, which serves amongst other things as a metaphor for gentrification, is following film around London. Through a combination of avant-garde editing techniques and, especially at the end in which the film repeats itself after a new narrator visits the first’s grave, horror genre modes, Smith demonstrates the power of the subjectivity of a single voice to turn what is ostensibly little more than disparate perspectives of a single tower into something much more. “This building I came across because I moved to a new area of East London in the 1980s and apart from the fact that it was a really bizarre structure, I also got really interested in it aesthetically because the top part of the tower was painted with such an unreflective black paint; especially on a sunny day, it looked like a hole cut out of the sky. So it’s really interesting on an abstract level: this idea of an absence of image on top of a plinth.” — John Smith -- source link