Cameron reconstructs life aboard in the shape of living tableaux of passengers and crew, seen in spectral mode, eating, drinking, dancing or promenading among the watery remnants of their vessel. (rottentomatoes.com)
Last year Smith organized the show «Obscuridades Bucólicas» at La Tallera in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, for which she conceived a series of tableaux vivants restaging different scenes in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder's, that explored the morality of genre painting from a contemporary perspective. (frieze.com)
Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters. (notcoming.com)