If you have ever wondered – as I have – when exactly the moment will come that art will
eat itself then you may not need to wonder anymore. Take a look at
Joke, directed by
Nickolas Duarte. It may make you laugh; it may repulse or perhaps even disgust you. One way or another I think it may usurp your expectations of what an experimental film should be by ultimately refusing to be an experimental film (and by its own genre-specific self-rejection it then becomes exactly what purports to hate). There’s enough contradiction in
Joke to make your head spin.
Enough of the arty
yada yada yada from me.
Joke made me sit up and pay attention, and to (at least for a minute until my butterfly brain was drawn elsewhere) reconsider my relationship with art, particularly in its modern, audiovisual incarnation.
