Progressive
7.8
Before Stonewall
(1984)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Daily News (1979)
Daily News (1979)
Overview
Socialist Slovenia’s first feature-length experimental film, DAILY NEWS was shot in 1980 on Super-8mm by then-26-year-old Franci Slak, who would go on to become an acclaimed industry director. As its title suggests, the film is a diary in which the author records his observations of the outside world; as Silvan Furlan writes, it “evokes with a certain nostalgia those golden days of the underground, when the freedom of filmmaking was written in capital letters.” Film theorist Jože Dolmark appraised it best: “the film contains a desire to record (not strictly chronologically) the experience of a lived day: what happened to you, what you experienced, or which is more interesting, what you would like the day to look like, according to how you’ve imagined it. I think the entire power of DAILY NEWS lies in this desire of Franci’s for what remained unspoken, what slipped, what remained outside the edges, and what we’ll never know.”
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
Socialist Slovenia’s first feature-length experimental film, DAILY NEWS was shot in 1980 on Super-8mm by then-26-year-old Franci Slak, who would go on to become an acclaimed industry director. As its title suggests, the film is a diary in which the author records his observations of the outside world; as Silvan Furlan writes, it “evokes with a certain nostalgia those golden days of the underground, when the freedom of filmmaking was written in capital letters.” Film theorist Jože Dolmark appraised it best: “the film contains a desire to record (not strictly chronologically) the experience of a lived day: what happened to you, what you experienced, or which is more interesting, what you would like the day to look like, according to how you’ve imagined it. I think the entire power of DAILY NEWS lies in this desire of Franci’s for what remained unspoken, what slipped, what remained outside the edges, and what we’ll never know.”
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's highly abstract, experimental, and structuralist nature, focusing on the materiality of film and perception, precludes any discernible political messaging or bias.
This film is an abstract experimental work that does not feature traditional characters or a narrative. As such, it does not engage with themes of social identity or representation, resulting in a neutral stance regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Secondary
Paul Sharits' 'Passare I (Italia)' is an abstract experimental film focused on visual and auditory elements. It does not contain narrative, characters, or explicit thematic content, and therefore, no LGBTQ+ characters or themes are present for evaluation.
Venetian Blind is an abstract experimental film by Fred Worden, primarily exploring light, shadow, and sound. It lacks a narrative structure and does not feature any identifiable characters or themes related to transsexual identity, resulting in no portrayal to assess.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Paul Sharits's "Passare I (Italia)" is an experimental film without traditional narrative or characters derived from pre-existing source material or history. Therefore, there are no established characters whose gender could be swapped.
Passare I (Italia) is an experimental, non-narrative film by Paul Sharits. It does not feature characters with established canonical or historical races from source material, making a race swap inapplicable by definition.
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