Within Cohen’s Lost Book Found I felt a great importance placed on fleeting images and the traces that people leave behind. I myself love to find objects or pieces of paper that someone has dropped or thrown away. I find myself thinking of who this person is and where they are in their life. In fact, I kept thinking of one of my favorite websites, Found Magazine. In the film, Cohen shows us the city through “handmade notes”, store fronts, and people who spend their day fishing. The whole film felt like it was shot through a haze, like a distant memory of our own.
Sadie Benning’s Girl Power has an overpowering feel to it. The multiple pop culture images really sort of come right at you. The use of the music of Bikini Kill adds to the overall abrasiveness (a word that I do not use negatively here) of the film. The film was in your face, drawing from photographs, television, and music, almost like a zine in film format. Girl Power seems to be a definite example of the Riot Grrrl movement.
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