Chicago Underground Film Festival and Filmmakers Summit 2008

'Action Film' is a manipulation of a well-known Hollywood action film. This video makes abstract the image, while maintaining a sense of the original film's action and suspense. This particular piece of footage was chosen to make into an abstract film, concentrating on the rhythms and colors, but not made so abstract that one cannot recognize the original film. The music for Action Film by Brian Lamere heightens the 'action' in a way that gives new meaning and expectations to the images. The music suggests, without relying on imitation of, the score that one would expect from this kind of Hollywood film. This furthers the audience's recognition of the film's original genre and invites the viewer to consider the disruption of narrative expectations through abstraction.