Sentences with phrase «disorienting settings»

Drawing from theater, cinema and literature, I make dramatic and disorienting settings that house projected slides.

Presented as a recovered documentary, the shaky camera, night - vision shots and a disorienting setting, «The Blair Witch Project» came together to create a terrifying cinematic experience.

The viewer enters into a temporally fragmented and disorienting setting.

Not exact matches

After resting for five minutes, York headed back to the mainland in an attempt to break the two - way record set last month by Penny Dean, but with less than 100 yards to go, became disoriented and had to be hauled out of the 63 ° water.

When you're disoriented, sleep - deprived, and cranky from acclimating to life with your baby, it doesn't take much to set off a big fight with your partner.

After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the film's opening stages are less concerned with setting a scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.

The film has about five sets and they never feel like they connect together, but this is less an attempt at disorienting the viewer than simply cutting corners; the grisly, overdone lighting, meanwhile, makes you want to hide behind your fingers for all the wrong reasons.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

As one might expect from a melodrama, wonderstruck unfolds itself with deliberate care, taking its time to set its story, disorienting at first until it gradually comes into focus.

My favorite shot of the film is the opening one in the psych ward — long continuous take, no audible dialog, set against disorienting synth music.

Velocity aside, Spielberg's series of racing sequence are as cluttered and disorienting as the Wachowskis» Speed Racer set pieces were linear and clarified, suggesting Spielberg isn't as interested in embodying the totality of pop culture here as he is in picking apart how things managed to get so far out of control.

Its gangster - land setting, inventively disorienting mise en scène, and synthesizer soundtrack pay homage to Johnnie To, Wong Kar Wai, Dante Lam, and Hong Kong action films.

It is disorienting and out of context, the definition of in media res, and it sets the table for what the director is planning to unleash on his audience.

Which is not to say the movie's devoid of direction: The filmmaker drops a few nuggets of plot early on to set Aydin's disoriented state in motion, and steadily builds toward a payoff that brings it full circle: While Aydin is driving through his land with his assistant, a child throws a rock at their windshield, prompting confrontation with the boy's disgruntled father.

As the first weekend of Sundance comes to an end, FC Editor - in - Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image, discuss the white privilege and bacchanalia of Sebastián Silva's disorienting Tyrel, Ethan Hawke's biopic of heavy - drinking country singer / songwriter Blaze Foley, Gustav Möller's gimmicky debut thriller The Guilty, and the joyousness and charm of Sandi Tan's first - person Singapore - set documentary Shirkers.

If kitty is very disoriented, take him in the bedroom with you and set up a cozy sleeping spot for him there — complete with a conveniently located litter box nearby.

Those pets only appear disoriented and hesitant in unfamiliar settings.

Da Corte is both a maker of boldly strange objects and a designer of the psychically disorienting immersive settings in which he presents them.

GDM — Grand Dad's Visitor Center is an exhibition that unfolds through disorienting spaces and paradoxical settings: a beauty parlor, mirrored walls and surfaces, tilted and angular rooms, dark and twisting corridors, an area where tea is served and a karaoke zone.

Prager removes the certainty of the omnipotent perspective of the viewer through scale, dramatic cropping, layering, and uncontextualized settings, replacing it with a disorienting awareness of the constructed nature of most «real world» imagery we encounter.

For these works Bickerton designs intricate stage sets and paints directly onto his models, their clothes, and props, photographing them and then editing the images during post-production to create hyper - realistic yet artificial and disorienting scenes.

Looking through the images for Warsaw's Private Settings, Art after the Internet group survey, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, it's a disorienting trip through a recent and familiar past for any fan of this kind of contemporary art.

Alongside Olivares's performances are Barbara T. Smith's Xerox poetry sets created during her dual life as a Pasadena housewife and emerging artist in the 60s, Mélanie Matranga disorienting sceneographies, and Dena Yago's flatbed scanner images, which she will discuss during a Culture Now talk with McLean - Ferris at the ICA on March 27.

The newly created settings are neither here nor there — disorienting not only in the ambiguity of time and place but also in the presence of a vague undertone of dread.

Suffering a lack of focus then disorients a leader and sets the stage for poor communication.