Working with a smaller budget, it's basically a four - character film which wouldn't suffer too much from being staged in a theatre — featuring unusually long dialogue scenes in diners, restaurants and motel rooms,
with staccato rhythms and masculine posturing borrowed from David Mamet, another of Anderson's key, acknowledged influences.
Not exact matches
(Significantly, the first part of the video essentially begins
with two technological sounds / images /
rhythms: film turning on an editing table and Godard tapping typewriter keys — the first legato, the second
staccato.)
Hence, there was more attention to the exercises, using
staccato on one note,
with spoken
rhythms being demanded so that understanding and accuracy were achieved.
Like Pollock, whose lyrical loops carried the private
rhythms of an artist enamored of dance, and Twombly, whose
staccato, sketchy lines reflect a different temperament, Carone's inspirations flow directly from a subconscious informed by a lifetime of association
with some of the century's most important artists and their works.
In a new series of marble works, Claudia Comte plays
with a similar
staccato rhythm, along
with the language of modernist abstraction, while Michael Dean's concrete sculpture explores the conversion of language from word to form, taking its shape from the artist's own writings remodelled into three - dimensional fonts.
Being composed of many short pieces arranged by topic, the
rhythm of the book is a bit
staccato but won't be anything new to anyone who's familiar
with blogs.