Sentences with phrase «cinematic convention»

In any case, the camera observes her according to time - honored cinematic conventions: from behind at a low angle as she walks around in her underwear or a bathing suit.

Now and then, though, you see a film that jumps off the spectrum altogether, one that reminds you that novel possibilities exist even within the most well - worn cinematic conventions.

It looks so filmic as to honour Tim Burton's attention to not just period details but cinematic conventions of the Fifties — low angles, spartan sets, high - key lighting — as well, and is easily confused at times for a product of the era being satirized, which was less true of the disc's DVD and LaserDisc counterparts.

But whenever I try to explain my fascination with his technique, why I find it so refreshing and exhilarating and spellbinding, why it's so gratifying to see an incisive mind using cinematic conventions with a sense of humor and irony, I always flash on a shot from The Wild Bunch.

After decades of flouting cinematic conventions with movies such as Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988), Waters embarked on his photo - based work in the early 1990s.

In Alex Prager's most ambitious film to date, the Los Angeles photographer and filmmaker adopts cinematic conventions to explore the complicated emotions elicited by crowds.

If his last film, the atmospheric, if claustrophobically nondescript saga of love and woe To the Wonder was the acclaimed filmmaker's attempt to pick away at cinematic convention, it is with this one that he abandons traditional narrative constructs entirely.

Manifesto works best as a thought experiment; fitting it into cinematic convention makes it a little more boring and confounding.

Moviegoers these days seem to be threatened by challenging films like Birdman (2014) that defy cinematic conventions, and instead prefer traditional motion pictures like Unbroken that uplift the spirit.

Gaspar Noé is akin to a Pop Art equivalent of Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke in that his films are experimental works that manipulate formal cinematic conventions to annoy, frustrate and provoke.

Mann is an ambitious filmmaker who often seeks to refresh cinematic conventions if only to tell very familiar stories.

Even in the grip of full Hamilton fever, few film critics tried to argue that a stage musical was a movie, even if it adopts certain cinematic conventions and tries to put them onstage.

Director Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration) has always enjoyed thumbing his nose at stuffy cinematic conventions, and while he's obviously enchanted by Hardy's text, his movie is fun because he's keen not to give it too much respect.

He started abandoning cinematic convention.

There is a certain way that Native and Indigenous artists want to tell their stories, and to impose cinematic conventions upon them too much can destroy their Indigeneity and their authenticity.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

At the same time, Douglas deconstructs cinematic convention by breaking down the film into several channels as well as giving communication media a role in the plot — much of which is also set in a cinema.

Prager has garnered acclaim for her intricately staged, highly complex imagery that makes use of cinematic convention as a tool to challenge narrative tropes and offer deeper psychological associations to seemingly ordinary themes.

Aitken talks to Amanda Sharp about seeing dreams as interactive short films, his desire to break free from cinematic conventions, and why the world - famous funk musician George Clinton only stays at Day's Inn motels.

Much of his work delves into the psychology of contemporary trauma, often relying on the blurring of memory and the retelling of actual events through cinematic convention.

Angelica's video works use cinematic conventions and performance languages as a means of responding to the particularities of a given location, its history, environment and communities.

Scott Pilgrim plays well beyond the hype, an enormous burst of energy and imagination that both plays with every cinematic convention we know of and re-invents the form entirely

His magnificent film is both a work of technical brilliance and artful intelligence that challenges our knowledge of both cinematic conventions and the histrionic lives of Russia's yesteryear.

A sublimely ironic deconstruction of cinematic conventions?

Still, whatever its ultimate shortcomings, Dheepan offers a visceral ride in which real - world problems join with cinematic conventions to form a powerful tale of survival.

Alex Prager (American, born 1979), a self - taught photographer, takes her cues from pulp fiction, the cinematic conventions of movie directors such as Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, and fashion photography.

Rejecting the cinematic conventions of personality - driven characters and narrative - driven time, Kiss forces a cold, anthropological contemplation of this classic expression of human passion, questioning what it means truly to make contact.

Just's pictures are notably conjured through the manipulation of both social and cinematic convention; his use of appropriation mutates to bend the conventions of mainstream Hollywood productions while building from their structure.

Having exhibited internationally, Mesiti's video works use cinematic conventions and performance languages as a means of responding to the particularities of a given location, its history, environment and communities.

The 40 - minute work explores loss and grief as much as the narrative constructions of fiction and the cinematic conventions used in documentary films.