Sentences with phrase «cinematic conventions of»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

It also means possessing an informed knowledge of the film's complex and dense «language,» its conventions, codes, symbols, cinematic attributes, and other factors.

Hot on the heels of 1981's Body Heat, One Deadly Summer follows suit by updating noir conventions and archetypes, but while Lawrence Kasdan intensifies «noirishness» by amping the dial to 11, Becker integrates even more cinematic influences and engages with lingering post-WWII anxieties in a manner that broadens, rather than distills, the film's revisionist stakes.

Alas, such expectations are not met and this is owing to Vinterberg's reluctance to challenge the conventions of a cinematic genre in the manner in which he has founded his entire career upon, which comes as a complete disappointment.

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.

But with both this and Dawn of the Dead, he has proven himself a consummate storyteller who can transform convention into cinematic magic & #Array; which is why it's with reluctant enthusiasm that we assign him the responsibility of restoring the luster of mainstream movies.

While the narrow tone and deliberately offbeat methods are sure to elicit derision from those comfortable with more standard cinematic conventions, they also make Cyrus stand out as an intimate and heartfelt piece of filmmaking.

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.

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.

This group — ranging from classic Untitled Film Stills of the late 1970s to untitled «prosthetic» works of the 1990s — privileges specific instances in which Sherman adopts or stages — through the collision of multiple photographic, cinematic, and narrative conventions — heightened states of emotional distress and psychological anxiety.

Mr. Douglas's play with the conventions of the cinematic espionage thriller is heady and gripping.

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.

Dreamlands presents early experiments with cinematic space that jolt the spectator out of the conventions of seeing, postwar works that offer a darker and more fragmented experience of the moving image, and contemporary works that often exploit the infinite malleability of the digital image.

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.

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.

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

French artist Marc Desgrandchamps, for instance, gravitates — in his work in general and in his two lithographs in the present exhibition — towards scenes that embody a cinematic sense of flux while tapping modernist conventions of transparency and montage.

Drawing from desire, oneirism, and a fantasized depiction of nature, Prouvost's immersive films and installations challenge the relationship between language and understanding through complex stories and surreal moments with her unusual approach to cinematic conventions and imagery.

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.