The following is a list of partially-organized thoughts on Direct Cinema, a 2012 article by J. Hoberman on Stan Brakhage's Mothlight (1963).
- In all media, there are standard conventions, such as size and length, that are often overlooked. Hoberman mentions "the arbitrary standard length of a 16-mm camera roll" at one hundred feet, causing me to consider more in depth the arbitrary standards associated with cinema and what movie artists face when they call their medium into question.
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- Mothlight takes "animation" literally. I'm a fan of puns and word-play in general, so this was a piece of the article that particularly caught my attention.
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- Why would Stan Douglas feel that photography is any more "a scaleless medium" than drawing or painting. After an image has already been recorded in a different scale and set of dimensions, it can then be resized using new technology. Photography is no exception to this, as I can see it.
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- To me, Mothlight is an interesting thought process because it is the only film "in which you actually see exactly what you're looking at," with the exception of scale (as the projected image is necessarily larger than the original.
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