Smith's voice felt very warm and personable, evoking empathy and sadness, while Brakhage forces us to see rather than hear. Smith is more objective, while Brakhage is more subjective. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth

Smith’s truth is something you get handed, Brakhage’s is something you have to work for. One felt like a conversation, the other felt like being left alone in a dark room. Both are staged, just one stages a message and the other stages an experience. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth

Clint Smith asks me to trust him. His voice tells me what to feel and why, and the truth he stages is a moral one: these men are human. Brakhage asks me to trust my own eyes. No voice, no guide, just light through moth wings. The truth there is in the seeing. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth

Clint Smith uses his voice and poetry to help us connect emotionally with his experience, while Mothlight uses images and movement instead of words. I think both show that there are different ways to communicate reality.

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smith had tried harder to shape reality by using voice which was asking us to believe in what he was saying and trying to persuade us with. brakhage erased voice which made us have to observe the truth for ourselves and interpret it in our own way. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth

Clint Smith uses voice to guide how we understand the people and emotions in Beyond This Place, while Brakhage removes voice completely and makes us rely only on image. Smith is asking for our attention while Brakhage asks us to create meaning for ourselves from what we see. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth

#hwa5 #twowaystotruth I think the truth that was staged with Brakhage was more of simply showing the viewer what is happening, which makes it seem more authentic, whereas Clint Smith was also trying to represent a true feeling from inmates but with more structure and effects

#hwa5 #twowaystotruth Brakhidge allowed for your own thought and opinion while clint made you take your opinion and press it against his on the topic, did you feel the same way does your truth align with mine?

Smith uses poetry to stage a truth within the empathy of his situation, and Brakhage erases a human voice entirely to stage truth within raw footage. Smith uses his voice to sympathize with the viewers, while Brakhage uses sensory elements to relate

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I think Clint Smith wanted me to understand the emotions behind real experiences through his words and storytelling. Stan Brakhage wanted me to experience something without being told what to think. #hwa5 #twowaystotruth