The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts which said, “Don’t forget that you could adopt *this* attitude,” or “Don’t forget you could adopt *that* attitude. For reasons I dont quite understand, there also a list of them on the BBC website.
If you’re in a panic, you tend to take the head-on approach because it seems to be the one that’s going to yield the best results Of course, that often isn’t the case – it’s just the most obvious and – apparently – reliable method. You probably know of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidts Oblique Strategies. Beesley has since directed 9 feature-length films. His career directing documentaries began by drinking moonshine with R.L.
“… Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation – particularly in studios – tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach. Bradley Beesley thrives on documenting the strange, nearly forgotten recesses of Americana.
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