Autumn Moon

In the case of experimental narrative, the presentation of the motifs is considerably different from that of the other genres. The following two case studies will illustrate those differences. We will look at Atom Egoyan s Calendar (1993) and Clara Law s Autumn Moon (1992). 

There are two main characters in Autumn Moon. The story takes place in Hong Kong, but in this film the city is pictured as a city of skyscrapers and sea. Each is fascinating and offers the two characters a formal space to occupy. 

Autumn Moon carries us through the course of their unorthodox friendship. 

There is a cool, ironic tone to Autumn Moon. Although there are moments of deep feeling—his confession to the Japanese woman about his inability to feel, his cruel description of the preferable anatomy of her sister—more frequently the film takes the point of view of voyeur, looking from the outside in on these characters. His constant video filming supports this sense. 

Unconventional stories are the first source for experimental narrative. Generally, the stories tend to be exploratory—stories of identity, stories of alienation, meditations on a time or place. Vincent Ward s film The Navigator looks at a medieval period Clara Law s Autumn Moon looks at Hong Kong— a place where change and tradition meet and, in the 1990s, conflict. Because experimental narrative sidesteps plot, stories of character dominate. Because the genre favors open-ended or nonlinear stories, the preference is for tone, to make up for the absence of resolution. 

On one level, the writer must keep a playful attitude toward character. The man in Autumn Moon is depressed, and yet the way the writer-director works with him produces an appealing side to him. It is important that the female character is different from him in the story the larger the contrast, the better. In Autumn Moon, that character is a girl, 15 years old, as unspoiled as the man is spoiled. The larger the gap, the more play enters the narrative and the more creative the writer can be. 

Plant and harvest under new moon at stroke of midnight. During growth fertilise with sperm of stallion if for sexual use later. Roots collected in autumn of second year of growth. 

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