{"id":608994,"date":"2024-02-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-abel-ferrara-interweaves-poetry-and-war\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:00:00","slug":"watch-abel-ferrara-interweaves-poetry-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-abel-ferrara-interweaves-poetry-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Abel Ferrara Interweaves Poetry and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a32cfe14bc3d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a32cfe14bc3d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-abel-ferrara-interweaves-poetry-and-war\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Abel_Ferrara_Interweaves_Poetry_and_War%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Abel Ferrara Interweaves Poetry and War&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-abel-ferrara-interweaves-poetry-and-war\/#%E2%80%9CAbel_Ferrara_Interweaves_Poetry_and_War%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Abel Ferrara Interweaves Poetry and War&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Abel_Ferrara_Interweaves_Poetry_and_War%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Abel Ferrara Interweaves Poetry and War&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAbel_Ferrara_Interweaves_Poetry_and_War%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Abel Ferrara Interweaves Poetry and War&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s a slim overlap in the Venn diagram of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Patti Smith. Into that nearly infinitesimal space fits Abel Ferrara\u2019s obliquely reflective, geopolitical documentary \u201cTurn in the Wound.\u201d For that alone it deserves attention, though the Ukrainian president and the American poet\/punk rocker aren\u2019t Ferrara\u2019s subjects so much as they are his featured co-authors \u2014 fellow painters of a portrait depicting the feeble but essential human instinct to chronicle the horrors of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Filled with shocking footage of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, coupled with first-person recollections of atrocities, Ferrara\u2019s unconventional film heavily features poetic performance art by Smith throughout its runtime. It\u2019s the glue that binds the film, until it no longer can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Languid despite its brevity, the movie occasionally loses its wider perspective beneath a one-track focus on individual lives. Still, it maintains a magnetic allure for lengthy stretches, thanks to its use of noisy, low-rent digital video in both its recovered archival footage and its newly filmed interviews with Zelenskyy and various Ukrainian soldiers. The project\u2019s chronicling of recent history ends up elevated by Ferrara \u2014 who enlists longtime collaborators Sean Price Williams (\u201cThe Sweet East\u201d) and Emmanuel Gras (\u201cMakala\u201d) to serve as camera operators \u2014 from mere reflection on violent events to digital self-reflection on the way their images transform viewers through sight and sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Ferrara\u2019s de facto framing device features Smith, backed by projections of abstract images like shifting landscapes, delivering an impassioned spoken-word performance set to heavy, intoxicating strings. She draws on the poetry of surrealists such as Arthur Rimbaud and Ren\u00e9 Daumal (a line from the former\u2019s \u201cMemory\u201d lends the film its title), while the cameras in her vicinity record not only Smith, but each other. This device makes the very act of filming this intimate showcase a work of performance in itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A similar instinct toward self-reflexivity permeates the movie\u2019s Ukraine-based segments. These take the form of painful, protracted firsthand recollections of bloodshed and desolation, from stories of buildings destroyed by artillery shells, to accounts of mothers and grandmothers forced to step up from behind the confines of femininity and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> expectation. The lo-fi video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to these interviews, which lack finesse and careful lighting setups, not only imbues with a sense of danger and immediacy, but draws the eye to digital artifacts. It\u2019s worth watching on the big screen to catch these uncanny details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s a sense of impromptu fluidity to the film, made tangible and traceable through this sort of low-light pixelation and digital noise. The artifice is exposed early on, as these interviews, filmed against backdrops of rubble, are briefly interrupted by shots of the filmmaker and his crew, a small group of witnesses standing in a war zone with little more than a flimsy microphone and tiny cameras (including a cell phone at one point). In the age of 4K handheld devices and DIY cinema, this lack of finesse speaks to a sense of intense reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Much of this footage is aesthetically indistinguishable from the shaky digital zoom of some of the recovered bodycam and helmet footage the movie employs, whether distant shots of Russian helicopters being fired upon by shoulder-mounted bazookas, or of ground troops taking on Russian tanks. Both the unfurling of war itself and its aftermath (as seen in the talking-head segments) are bound by their texture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Equally horrifying are the painfully lengthy interviews with witnesses, victims and combatants, often translated by an interpreter whose voice shakes as she relays the terrors they\u2019ve seen. However, Smith\u2019s performance (combined with the film\u2019s affinity for crossfades and drawn-out overlaps between wartime images and her avant-garde projections) functions as a form of interpretation too. The tactic obliges viewers to lean forward and intuit meaning from Smith\u2019s haunting, hypnotic sermons on death as they\u2019re forced to exist in close proximity to actual death and destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    However, rather than following through on its thoughtful intensity, Smith\u2019s staging ends up anticlimactic right when it ought to crescendo. She exits the trance-like mode of her performance and takes us with her into something more mundane, as though she had built an escape hatch to her immersion. While this may have felt permissible in any other context, its presentation alongside the movie\u2019s Ukrainian subjects \u2014 who have no such option to escape their circumstances \u2014 verges on betrayal, and momentarily renders her commentary futile. This sudden noninvolvement goes hand-in-hand with the movie\u2019s thesis, which flirts with the idea that when it comes to telling other people\u2019s most painful stories, artists are mere interlopers to their hellish realities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That Ferrara doesn\u2019t shy away from capturing these pitfalls suggests a larger and more overarching view of conflict \u2014 political and military; ethical and aesthetic \u2014 which \u201cTurn in the Wound\u201d attempts to fold into its purview. It doesn\u2019t always succeed, given the breadth of the topics at hand, but it does occasionally distill them into moments that prove either gut-churning or powerfully introspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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