http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88 Observations and Criticism by Jason Osder Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:28:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88#comment-322 Jon Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:58:20 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88#comment-322 Great post man. I agree with the power of being in public to watch... There's something you don't get sitting on your couch at home. I've been following your blog on and off for the past couple months - it's great! Great post man. I agree with the power of being in public to watch… There’s something you don’t get sitting on your couch at home. I’ve been following your blog on and off for the past couple months - it’s great!

]]> http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88#comment-323 Arin Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:21:46 +0000 http://jasonosder.com/blog/archives/88#comment-323 Does an audience constitute a community? Under what circumstances can ths be so? We all sit seperated by intent, by desire. Why did we come? What are we responsive to? What impacts us-indivdually and collectively? I guess (as the girl who was rocking) I wonder if our emotions to films, or as an audience, originate within ourselves or if they are always some echo or reverberation from those around us? I know I was impacted by the elderly man-his contrast. He was at once so emotive and moved with his feeling and at the same time he was immobilized,--static. We too- were frozen and yet we remain moved by the event. THe shared structure of feeling to borrow from Raymond Williams comes to mind. When you experience something in the dark together it seems to act as a binder between us all. I am also thinking of when Jason and I went to the museum (previously chronicalled) and we experienced strangers talking to us int he dark about the exhibit. One woman approached me directly and engaged me about a particular piece in a very direct fashion. Are our guards down when we come together --in the dark--to experience something? Does the theater (or the darkened museum) lend itself to a collective experientiality that is laden with emotional resonance? What did we actually share in theat structure of feeling? Was it a memory for him, a twinge of regret fro tripping over him, awe at the horrors of Nanking, projections about our grandfathers onto him? Whatever oit was that was binding between us-it moved us all in the stillness, it showed us something within the dark. Does an audience constitute a community? Under what circumstances can ths be so? We all sit seperated by intent, by desire. Why did we come? What are we responsive to? What impacts us-indivdually and collectively? I guess (as the girl who was rocking) I wonder if our emotions to films, or as an audience, originate within ourselves or if they are always some echo or reverberation from those around us? I know I was impacted by the elderly man-his contrast. He was at once so emotive and moved with his feeling and at the same time he was immobilized,–static. We too- were frozen and yet we remain moved by the event. THe shared structure of feeling to borrow from Raymond Williams comes to mind. When you experience something in the dark together it seems to act as a binder between us all. I am also thinking of when Jason and I went to the museum (previously chronicalled) and we experienced strangers talking to us int he dark about the exhibit. One woman approached me directly and engaged me about a particular piece in a very direct fashion. Are our guards down when we come together –in the dark–to experience something? Does the theater (or the darkened museum) lend itself to a collective experientiality that is laden with emotional resonance? What did we actually share in theat structure of feeling? Was it a memory for him, a twinge of regret fro tripping over him, awe at the horrors of Nanking, projections about our grandfathers onto him? Whatever oit was that was binding between us-it moved us all in the stillness, it showed us something within the dark.

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