thinbeach
'Etudes de Mouvements' doesn't have the subject matter of Yoris Ivens mini-masterpieces 'Regen' and 'De Brug', but you can see the same philosophy at hand. The subject he has chosen here are cars, and the same way he often focused on puddles in 'Regen', allowing their shape and reflections to capture the beauty and atmosphere of rain, he often focuses on wheels here, allowing their gliding and mechanics to capture the flow of movement. And as he gave the other films simple three act structures, he attempts to do the same here, simply by way of a wide top down shot of the road to open and close, to step back and take a birds eye view, before throwing you closer to the action in between.But while his approach is similar, and the photography very nice, these studies of movement don't manage to capture anything extraordinary the way his other films do. It doesn't manage to transcend the subject matter and become about something more than just cars.
