At trial, prosecutors proceeded with what can only be described as a surreal presentation of video footage painstakingly played for hours to the court.
In any case, the re-presentation of film footage has become such a commonplace artistic strategy that it is difficult to get excited by it, unless in the hands of someone who really manipulates it as marvellously as Christian Marclay or, occasionally, Douglas Gordon.
At that convention, held in April for movie theater owners, his high-speed presentation of "Unexpected Journey" footage received a sharply mixed reaction.
An audio-visual presentation features footage of Earth and the moon's surface taken during the flight (Apollo 10 was the first mission to provide live color telecasts from space) and video clips of the crew reminiscing about the mission.
Workshops involved a PowerPoint presentation, video footage of clinicians, service users and families discussing psychosis and outlined the case for seeking help at the earliest possible point following onset of psychosis.
The presentation of the secretly filmed footage was an accurate representation of the discussions".
But Clooney fears those flaws – which included the presentation of a Gotye song, footage of a trotting horse, and pictures of Greste's parents as evidence of the trio's guilt – are so serious that they will compromise the integrity of any second hearing.
In the magazine this week, Anthony Lane reviews "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno" (opening tomorrow at IFC Center), a documentary presentation by Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea of footage from Clouzot's unfinished 1964 feature and an investigation, by way of interviews with crew members, of why it wasn't finished.
The presentation of the film team's lost footage, functioning similar to a flashback, inspired the found footage style of narrative filmmaking, later popularized by such films as the The Blair Witch Project.
