{"id":5527,"date":"2012-02-03T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2012-02-03T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:35:46","slug":"last-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2012\/02\/03\/last-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Last man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m catching up on the news that Theo Angelopoulos <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/topics\/rip?utm_source=digest&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=digest39\">died<\/a> last week. Hit by a motorcycle. Now that the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/blog\/entry\/theo-angelopoulos-1935-2012\">last of the European modernists<\/a>&#8221; (as he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Modernist-Angelopoulos-Contributions-Popular\/dp\/0275961192\">often<\/a> called) is dead, where does that leave us?<\/p>\n<p>Like kids searching for a father we never knew?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EC-AhAYLnOc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->(Watch it all <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XZ8Cc0gHZdA\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(In case you were wondering where Bela Tarr&#8217;s later style came from&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FoPy6AAC16M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or the father they thought they knew:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDMHQqlky20?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But never did.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NbF7ULeTXs8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Watch all four clips at once if you can.)<\/p>\n<p>Angelopoulos was perhaps the premier filmmaker of the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Event<\/span>, the crossed-out god whose traces, fragments, ruins, relics leave us perplexed, staring into the yawning gap of His\/Her withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>(Who is &#8220;us&#8221;, you ask? The ones he leaves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Altarity-Mark-C-Taylor\/dp\/0226791386\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1328282046&amp;sr=1-1#reader_0226791386\">wandering.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m catching up on the news that Theo Angelopoulos died last week. Hit by a motorcycle. Now that the &#8220;last of the European modernists&#8221; (as he&#8217;s often called) is dead, where does that leave us? 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