In Brian De Palma’s Blow Out, sound technician Jack Terry makes a film to seek the truth. By splicing together a series of photos of a political assassination, and syncing them with his own audio recordings captured on location, he reveals a disguised gunshot immediately preceding the moment of a fatal tire blowout. Terry’s detective work is often read as a metaphor for filmmaking, and how films fashion meaning from disparate sources of information. But there is another way to view him—not as a filmmaker, but a forensic specialist. A flashback reveals that Terry once worked on a government commission against police corruption, bugging agents for sting operations. His use of film technology to expose crimes has little to do with the creative process: this is filmmaking not as artistic ideation, but as applied technique. Where is the line between art and research? Between creating narratives and creating evidence?...
- 5/11/2021
- MUBI
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