Price's
chosen film medium gives an almost tangible quality to the clay, enhancing the sense of character and creating intrigue around the objects in the videos, more so than if they were encountered in the real world.
Not exact matches
To celebrate ten years of Reverse Shot, each writer
chose a
film that gives him or her hope for the future of the
medium.
This focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking
film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that just happened to
choose celluloid as the
medium in which to express himself.
Every shot (mostly full shots, with a few
mediums and only a few well -
chosen close - ups for punctuation) seems to have been planned with the camera in mind, so that the whole dance only exists as assembled on
film.
And in his feature
film debut, Sean Durkin takes full advantage of his
chosen medium's advantages, making «Martha Marcy May Marlene» one of the most immaculately edited new
films we can remember.
«We
chose Robert Altman as our inaugural director, who really crystallizes and illustrates what we're all about here: talking about
film history, about filmmakers who were independent and sort of pushed the
medium further, and Altman is emblematic of all that stuff that we love.
And so, in
choosing it as the
film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the
medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.
One morning last February, Tacita Dean called to tell me her
film lab in Soho had just informed her they would no longer be printing 16 mm
film, her
chosen medium and that of dozens of other artists, with immediate effect.