Notes on an Appearance

Handwritten on letters and postcards or printed on old maps, the filmed word takes on an unusual relevance in Notes on an Appearance. In opposition to the absence of technology, Ricky D’Ambrose constructs his film around anachronistic objects and models of communication. This is how this author, a scholar in search of ways to detach himself from the prevailing model of independent production, turns his wisdom into a singular staging of the Bressoniana lineage. As a sign of the rapid transformation of a Brooklyn calm and unpopulated, the so far short filmmaker focuses on showing the disused records of time. Archived photographs or video tapes with the Twin Towers in the skyline prop up the melancholic mood of the characters, immersed in the academy as a field of perpetual controversy. In addition to confirming a emerging strength behind the camera, this miniature tacticturn provides another occasion to track Tallie Medel, the revelation of The Unspeakable Act. SERGIO DE BENITO