Orin, B.U. punting, and Joelle
Another reason they seemed star-fated was that Joelle had in her sophomore year decided to concentrate in Film/Cartridge, academically, at B.U. Either Film-Cartridge Theory or Film-Cartridge Production. Or maybe both. The P.G.O.A.T. was a film fanatic, though her tastes were pretty corporate: she told O. she preferred movies where ‘a whole bunch of shit blows up.’ Orin in a low-key way introduced her to art film, conceptual and highbrow academic avant- and après-garde film, and taught her how to use some of InterLace’s more esoteric menus.
Context
Joelle's film vocation, at its start: a Film/Cartridge concentration, corporate blow-things-up tastes, and Orin as the unlikely gateway to the avant- and après-garde. The chain that ends at the auto-wobbling lens begins with a boyfriend's low-key syllabus.