At Dr. Bogner's suggestion I decided to do a little Dadaist experiment when I went to see a movie the other day. After our feature I slipped out of our theatre and took a little walk around. I stepped into a few different theatres to see what I could catch at that moment. I first stepped into Rambo and saw Sylvester Stallone kicking some ass with his ridiculous little headband on, then off to Meet the Spartans for an excruciating pop-culture mash up, a quick-in quick out for the Bucket List, and finally, I got to see a grand explosion in There Will Be Blood. This deliberate upset in classical viewership was a smidge dada.
The hodge-podge of images, the disregard for traditional beginning, middle, end, etc… forced me to think in a different way. I can’t say the experience was entirely foreign because of my current position in a society overcome by televisual flow; flipping through the channels has the same effect- but to a smaller scale. The production of going to the theatre, standing in line, buying the tickets, etc… is entirely different from conducting the experiment at home with a TV.
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