{"id":978,"date":"2004-04-01T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=978"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:49","slug":"the-subjective-landscape-works-by-alfred-guzzetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/04\/01\/the-subjective-landscape-works-by-alfred-guzzetti\/","title":{"rendered":"The Subjective Landscape: Works by Alfred Guzzetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, April 1, 2004, 8pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>Alfred Guzzetti in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>From Shanghai to Calcutta to his own backyard, the cinema of Alfred Guzzetti finds the exotic in the commonplace and a meditative beauty in the ever-changing modern landscape.\u00a0 Well known as a co-director of feature length documentaries, including Pictures From a Revolution and Family Portrait Sittings, Guzzetti has also created powerful short-format works, as featured in this program. The calming single-take <em>Sky Piece <\/em>(1978) is glaringly offset by the assaulting rhythms of <em>The Tower of Industrial Life<\/em> (2000), where the unconscious fear of distant violence intrudes upon the landscape of daily experience. Images of China, rain and lightning combine in the <em>Under the Rain<\/em> (1997) while <em>A Tropical Story <\/em>(1999), \u201cgives a lesson on thinking of something while being far away from it and seeing other things entirely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A landscape of trees changes subtly over time in<em> Chronological Order<\/em> (1985), while a threatening storm, a bicyclist, and the moon in the trees create a quiet drama in <em>Down From the Mountains <\/em>(2002).\u00a0\u00a0 The news of the day permeates a ten-minute slide of an Indian street corner in <em>Calcutta Intersection<\/em> (2003).\u00a0 Also showing, a work in progress, <em>History of the Sea<\/em> (Charissa King).<span> 1978\u20142004, Alfred Guzzetti, USA, ca. 82 min, various formats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 1, 2004, 8pm Alfred Guzzetti in person! From Shanghai to Calcutta to his own backyard, the cinema of Alfred Guzzetti finds the exotic in the commonplace and a meditative beauty in the ever-changing modern landscape.\u00a0 Well known as a co-director of feature length documentaries, including Pictures From a Revolution and Family Portrait Sittings, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/04\/01\/the-subjective-landscape-works-by-alfred-guzzetti\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from The Subjective Landscape: Works by Alfred Guzzetti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[423,450,481,615],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-portrait","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}