Joelle's frame-study: the hidden human flashes and the Bernini "self-forgetting" thesis

pivotal · UNDATED (~her co-op years, recalled)

• When: UNDATED — Joelle studies the Read-Only copies during her Orin/co-op years (pre-Subsidized into ~YW); recalled 14 Nov YDAU
• What: The thread's closest reading of what the cold early Work was hiding. Reviewing the cartridges frame-by-frame, Joelle finds almost-subliminal flashes of human pain — 'The Medusa v. the Odalisque''s three split-second cuts to the combatants' tormented faces, got in "as quickly and unstudyably as possible," "as if they compromised him somehow" — and, in Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell's 240-second Bernini shot, an unironic thesis: mediated self-forgetting — "Freedom from one's own head, one's inescapable P.O.V." — as the Grail, "the self-forgetting of alcohol as inferior to that of religion/art." Her overall verdict on the Work: technically gorgeous, "the work of a brilliant optician and technician who was an amateur at any kind of real communication." See Joelle's timeline (event 13).