Natural Features

After listening to Frampton's Lecture, it's hard to not try and describe a film on what you see most often in it. That is what happens most of the time, whether you realize it or not. We all describe films we see on trends that we notice throughout the film. After watching Nelson's Natural Features, I can't help but call it a film about painted features, specifically in faces. I thought that maybe it could just be a film about faces, as that is what is shown most often; but the title gives a little insight into something more. Most of the faces that are created aren't completed, so the film is more about certain features created multiple different ways using the paint. This makes me think that the film was made specifically to emphasize the beauty in everyone's natural features, no matter what they are. Whether this was the intention of the filmmaker or not, I can't be sure; but using Frampton's logic, this is what I have come to. The use of paint instead of some other medium also makes me think that Nelson was going for beauty throughout all natural features. Paint can be very unpredictable in how it will look and I think is very useful in this film because it helps show all the differences in natural features. That is why I chose the film to be about painted features instead of features or faces. The paint is very important in showing the variability in the features. I don't remember much of the sound from this film, but I don't think it was very important in this case. The visuals were enough to keep me intrigued the entire length of the film. Frampton was right when he said in his Lecture that the film would stimulate one, possibly two senses; in this case, only the first was necessary.