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Kevin Obsatz
(posted 10/23/01)

Jenny and Jason will make much more money than I ever will in this business.  That's not a bad thing.  They, along with Jon and Chris (also featured on this site) seem to have internalized this modern aesthetic in a way that I haven't seen much at all in contemporary filmmaking.

To call it an "MTV style" is degrading and inaccurate, because most of what you see on MTV is very forced and artifically stylized: you can practically hear the stage manager telling the cameramen "keep the cameras moving all the time... think ENERGY!"

Whereas here all of the style seems organic: camera moves, jump cuts, dissolves, speeding up and slowing down the film.  Jenny and Jason live in this world, and they seem to have an innate and natural understanding of this interface.  All of the cuts and moves feel right and appropriate.

Which is not to say that it's easy for them.  Rather, they make it look easy, as they manipulate time and space, cut things apart and then layer them to give you a kind of mosaic, a flowing, temporal cubism.

The approach is unique, and intrinsic to the material they've chosen.  We travel in a complete circle and seem to take in the whole world: day and night, city and country, desert and ocean, past and future.  Ambitious, and successful.