We never thought that the thing such as a match that is burned or a scrap of paper into the mud, or a fallen leaf, or perhaps a rusty useless nail could have a soul. I was taught by the Yorikke otherwise.
—B. Traven, The Death Ship
1. It really is Just As If the Arrow Is Thinking
For seven months, Juan Downey lived when you look at the Amazon woodland with a few Yanomami Indians. In 1979 he produced movie called The Laughing Alligator about that experience. There are numerous stories in this film, but to my brain the stories are additional towards the filmic quality of movie, to rhythms of light and shade, flicker and sheen. The stories are additional to your means the collage of pictures informs stories that are many. Not to mention, there’s always the face—the human face—and the nearly naked human anatomy, all filmed in loving close-up. Within these sequences, noise is extremely essential, even more then when it’s missing, much like the episode towards the end regarding the movie where a blue feather to your tail-end of an arrow braced tight up against the smooth epidermis of their shirtless upper body. The display screen fills with all the feather set into the shaft, twirled gradually in irregular stops and begins.
It’s just as if the arrow is thinking, inseparable since it is through the physical human body as both device and beauty. First the right hand techniques to and fro across the naked thigh, forward and backward, rolling materials into a thread, which is utilized to bind the feather into the arrow.
