It is very difficult to explain just how good this film
is. The work has many surprises not the least of which is
the films shocking ending. I won't spoil that by writing
about it here. Krogstad himself said The Gigabyte Trilogy
has taken 20 years for him to understand. Well, here is
what I can tell you: His TRILOGY, 20 years in the thinking,
is like a distillation of a lifetime of independent filmmaking.
This film is the embodiment of a principle: that Karl Krogstad
is a creature of unruly instincts unashamedly demonstrative
about his appetites. The film develops the means to express
his condition. Twenty years in the thinking you say....it
seems more like the rain falling off the Ponte Vechio. It
appears to be spontaneous. This film in the work of silk
worms, that is to say, uneven and masterful.
It is useless to film where it is possible
to describe. Fortified with this thought, Krogstad unveils
to us the very face of filmmaking. Accepting every ornamental,
anecdotal, or symbolic intention, he achieves the past,
even the finest, that belong to the cinema as clearly as
his. Krogstad is endeavoring to fashion a new type of film
(to the word new I attach the idea of different), and exclude
from it the idea of superiority or progress. In filmmaking,
any daring is legitimate that tends to augment the film's
power as cinema. Krogstad dares everything! His content
is bizarre, his editing-- shocking, and his ending dares
leaving his audience in tears offering no hope of recovery.
You leave the theater as the filmmaker himself has said
"a bird having struck a plate glass window. This is
cinema at his apex! I recommend you see The Gigabyte Trilogy."
-- Jean Metzinger
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