Arthur Lipsett's Very Nice, Very Nice is 7 minutes of visual and audio intensity tightly wrapped in violent editing . It commands your attention, demands you experience it, not interpret it, is over in no time and leaves your head spinning. It is a dark and disturbing world of indifference and nuclear threat, crass advertizing and choking environment Lipsett presents accompanied by an abstract soundtrack of non-sequitor and urban everyday that jolts and jars along the way to its desultory sign off by a voice over a cachaphonus crowd and some hot jazz optimistically prophesizing "warmth and brightness will return and the renewal of hopes of men."
A powerhouse experimental short in its day displaying nearly the same anxieties we face today. The form is seamless and its influence on filmmakers evident since its release. A gracefully harsh work by one man band Arthur Lipsett.
A powerhouse experimental short in its day displaying nearly the same anxieties we face today. The form is seamless and its influence on filmmakers evident since its release. A gracefully harsh work by one man band Arthur Lipsett.