The way in which audio and video are cut together in ads, TV shows, and online marketing these days has created
a contemporary film language that's like shorthand to us.
Not exact matches
The dialect in which the characters speak (peppered with frequent profanity; this R - rated
film has no nudity, no sexual depiction, no physical violence and is rated R solely on account of its
language, and possibly its themes) presents an arguably
contemporary portrait of what would conventionally be called a bad alliance / marriage.
At the
film's recent press day in Los Angeles, MoviesOnline sat down at a roundtable interview with Chazelle who discussed how he looked for ways to bring a
contemporary language that was musical, visual and emotional to a genre that runs the risk of nostalgia.
Malick's filmmaking
language is unlike anything else in
contemporary cinema and his latest
film is a breathtakingly imaginative, visionary and beautiful achievement which took my breath away
Lincoln Speaks, a 15 - minute
film, was originally produced to accompany the exhibition and features
contemporary writers and scholars discussing the power of Lincoln's
language and his enduring legacy in American political life.
IT»S LIKE EISENSTEIN PUTTING ONE THING NEXT TO ANOTHER AND CREATING A
LANGUAGE THAT WAY, AND IT IS ALSO RELATED TO SURREALISM AND JUXTAPOSING DISPARATE IDEAS, OBJECTS AND IMAGES JJ: At the same time that I was looking at
contemporary work and studying art history I was looking at
film — going to Anthology
Film Archives [in New York] and a lot of places that don't exist any more that were showing
film in the 1960s and 70s.
David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his
film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and
contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes
language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.
AW: One curiosity about
contemporary art is that there is a terrific interest in the old
languages and devices of painting, but generally in the work of photographers and
film - makers — or artists using photography and
film — but
contemporary painting itself sometimes looks back to the history and sometimes doesn't.
«
Contemporary art is the new international
language, unifying leading creators across art, music, fashion,
film and design,» said MOCA Director and MOCA TV Channel Executive Jeffrey Deitch.
The intention is to breathe new life into the exhibition process with which «When Attitudes Become Form» was staged, so as to go beyond the necessity for photographs and
films of the past event, and to be able to experience and analyze it literally, just as it was, even though it has been transported from the past to the present.The project has entailed the understanding that the
language with which an exhibition is mounted and the relations between the works set out by its curator have become a founding element of the history of modern and
contemporary art.
Sculpture, and the ideas that form it are also evident in many of the works — from the performative actions and
films of Antti Laitinen to the
language of Atkins many of the works on show probe at the problem of sculpture and our
contemporary understanding of the medium.
Photographic and
film mediums are an integral part of this show, exploring the translation of political propaganda into a
contemporary visual
language.