Video Screening 8/28/07

Jem Cohen's Lost Book Found was an interesting film about a man trying to live in the city. One question that continued to pass through my mind as I watched the movie was: Is this film autobiographical in reference to the narrator? In respect to the city? Or, is this autobiographical in reference to the narrator in respect to the city and the composition book belonging to the man who was a grate-fisher? It seemed that after the narrator read through the lists contained in the composition book, he took this sort of mindset when approaching his experience of the city. In a sense, the notebook became the lens through which he viewed his life in the city. The narrator made a decision, seemingly arbitrarily, that changed his worldview thereafter.