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喝汤要泡饭 • Odds & Ends:Treasures Four Avant Garde
Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat Culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belson Shimane added a melange of animation - assemblages, cutouts, colour-fields, and line drawings - and faux hipster narration by Jacobs (credited via the anagram Rhny Bojacs) punctuated by a bongo backing. Strung together with doublespeak and non-sequiturs, the monologues skirts the edge of nonsense as Jacobs waxes on about poetry, Jazz," reaching the public" "having a good time" and - although " money doesn't count" -" the possibility of subsidy" through grants. Footage of champagne, tropical beaches, and exotic peoples intermingles with rhythmic drawings and stop-motion flights of fancy. The visuals race on through dazzling transformations, both amplifying and undercutting the patter.
_______American Film, Treasures 4-Avant grade, 1947-1986. National Film Preservation Foundation, Foreword by Martin Scorsese. 2009
