While some of these people aren't consciously framing their activities as works of art, Wershler argues that what they're doing is so close to the practices of sixties conceptualism that the connection between the two can't be ignored.
Self-consciously framed as the misadventures of a foreign interloper, "You All Are Captains" takes a deceptively light hand to quandaries that have long plagued filmmakers who approach their subjects from across cultural and economic divides.
What we often forget is that healthy habits and productive actions can easily be enjoyable when we consciously frame them that way.
The prospect of a unified geopolitical bloc, consciously seeking to re-frame international (and global) health development with a new set of ideas and values, has also, if belatedly, begun to attract the attention of the global health community.
The prospect of a unified geopolitical bloc, consciously seeking to re-frame international (and global) health development with a new set of ideas and values, has begun to attract the attention of health researchers, policy makers and activists.
The irony in the photo this over-the-top, somewhat desperate slogan, plastered, for all its bombast, on a wispy plastic bag seems built in, first by Kmart itself, and again by Novak's straightforwardly beautiful, self-consciously patriotic framing.
There's a needlessly protracted sequence between the mother and a wounded cub that's pure filmmaker sadism and that, in its cutting and framing, makes it seem as if the mother is consciously cruel rather than following her instincts.
Those who, consciously or not, exploit the aesthetics of austerity as a way of framing a debate on public ethics may discover, too, a hidden cost.
Some people are desperate to identify what vexes them so they frame it in ways they can wholly accept even if not consciously choosing to entirely understand.
