201: Week 2

Out of the films we watched Monday what intrigued me the most was "At Land".  The trick cutting that was used to transition from beach to dinner table to forest seemed much like what you could find in particular sequences from films like "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine" which involve rather disorienting cuts between different scenes while the subject continues to carry out the same action.  It seems to me this film may have been a source of influence for those films. 

What interested me in Peterson's article was the definition of laughter as "the sneeze of the intellect".  I began thinking about this over the past few days and realized how true it really is.  I find that "experimental films" are rarely a source of humor for audiences because they cannot grasp or are repulsed by their often times surreal and disturbing nature.  If an audience member had not already left the theater they would most likely be too busy trying to decipher the film rather than appreciate the humor.