Sentences with phrase «disorienting viewers»

««Climax» shares much in common with the levitating camerawork of his divisive «Enter the Void,» but unlike that sprawling endeavor, this 96 - minute odyssey feels like just the right length to encapsulate his talent for disorienting viewers while inviting them into his madcap intentions of overtaking their senses,» Kohn wrote in his A - review out of Cannes.

Meanwhile, Mica Levi's score plays directly on the audience's nerves, mirroring the movie in the way it uses recognizable instruments and to disorient viewers.

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.

Segments like the «demon face» flash on the screen for an eighth of a second, disorienting the viewer and giving you a sense that you can never, ever let your guard down.

Jump cuts, whip - pans and extremely mobile cameras were deemed by many critics to be signs of sloppy filmmaking, but the French New Wave filmmakers used these techniques to reinvigorate the national cinema, disorient the viewer and add a sense of realism to their films.

It's a complex narrative structure meant to disorient the viewer, heightening the tragic aspect of the tale.

Intense bass often accompanies Dormer's microsleep hallucinations, while canny use of the split - surrounds helps to disorient the viewer during the fog chase.

Likewise, cheating on any emotional journey will always disorient the viewer.

The horizontal line in Robert Irwin's Light and Space installation may help disoriented viewers regain their bearings.

These tubes disrupt the notion of tableau in art and disorient the viewer: Should the works be framed mentally as paintings, sculptures, faces, or all three at once?

Using paint and plaster, she repeated the motif of a white bird throughout the space, beginning with a flat illustrated wallpaper that morphs into a subtle, low - relief projection, at once grounding and disorienting the viewer.

Across this simple, geometric digital print, Tess Jaray repeats an arrow - like motif to disorient the viewer and suggest spatial ambiguities.

«Pepe's work is an invasion of the exhibition space: it is a seemingly chaotic assemblage of insultingly «low» materials that disorients the viewer and forces bodily interaction, including, at the very least, stepping around, stooping under, looking up, looking through, and exercising faculties of mind and imagination....

It is the nature of much small - scale sculpture to disorient the viewer, inducing a Gulliver - like self - consciousness and a sense of having lost one's way.

Abel Tilahun's exhibition, Vital Signs, indulges in a play of scale and materiality meant to momentarily disorient the viewer.

Conceptualists Cory Arcangel and Pierre Bismuth disorient viewers by remixing and reversing emanations from contemporary mass media and pop culture.

In ways that are both subtle and overt, the works in this show — from artists Ruth Van Beek, Jason Fulford, Michael Lundgren and fashion photographer Viviane Sassen — were chosen because of their ability to confront, as well as disorient the viewer.

Where the surrealists attempted to disorient the viewer and provoke unconscious revelations, for which they sought parallels in the myths of antiquity, the artists of the New York School turned away from the viewer altogether and wiped out the surrealists» theatrical distance.

Many challenge the conventions of photographic portraiture, or use tactics such as masking, cropping, or fragmenting to disorient the viewer.

Mark Wallinger's new commission, «Labyrinth», aims to subvert London Underground's iconography and disorient the viewer

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Cordeiro had called the live broadcasts with a rotating cast of wrestlers, but it could be disorienting for viewers if he were pulled away to handle any unforeseen incidents that may occur during a show.

For all its disorienting intensity, emphasized by Mica Levi's keening and discordant score, Jackie operates at a chilly remove from the viewer.

It's a sad and ingenious series of snapshots that drip - feeds the tortuous plot while putting the viewer in Leonard's disoriented shoes.

BIRDS WITHOUT NAMES The telling of its story does a fine job keeping the viewer engaged and just disoriented enough to both appreciate its surprises and forgive an elongated, unnecessarily melodramatic end.

The disorienting scenes of the Dante's Inferno scenes are intensified by the accompanying acoustics it may surprise / disturb viewers by how creepy it sounds.

On the one hand, most people seem to agree that he did an admirable job of translating Suzanne Collins» popular dystopian sci - fi thriller into cinematic form; on the other hand, some of Ross» stylistic choices with Hunger Games (specifically, the disorienting shaky cam / editing approach) left many viewers feeling disgruntled.

Less patient viewers might find the rhythm of Claudel's storytelling a little disorienting, but the upshot of such economy is the film maintains tension far beyond the premise suggests it might.

Mass media direct, or disorient readers, viewers, listeners, according to the journalistic principles of the definite group.

Restless 20, a sculpture consisting of a single sheet of glass with various surface treatments of transparent, sandblasted and mirrored glass, disorients the perception of the viewer, creating an illusion of stacked materials lent against the wall.

Reminiscent of aerial photography, the Weather Paintings are mysterious images photographically printed as an aerial view of the land, creating a disorienting sense of sight so that the viewer feels suspended above rather than being on the ground.

From the first encounter with monumental abstraction Untitled, the viewer remains deprived of determined impression, but initially disoriented, but directed on the shift of focus into his own instincts and intuition.

The depth created in these videos can be disorienting for viewers.

The installation is just above eye level so that its ephemeral appearance gives way to a physically disorienting experience as the viewer approaches.

In each work, he seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense and sometimes disorienting perceptual experience.

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.

Moving forward in these uniform fields is disorienting — and, for some viewers, simply overwhelming.

But the viewer often encounters a disorienting, almost vertiginous split between modes of reading and of seeing.

The works will range from wraithlike sculptural works like Ground Control (2008), a black helium balloon that moves around slowly and freely in one of the gallery spaces, to video works like Dream Machine (2006), in which the three primary colors alternate frame by frame at 24 frames per second, producing a jarring, disorienting effect on the viewer.

Each venue, The first at 345 Eldert St, and the second at 136 Moffat St, will showcase visual and sound artists meant to create a full sensory experience for the viewer, disorienting and cacophonous.

She explored the dynamism of sight through her art, often producing a disorienting perceptual effect and deceiving the viewer's eye.

The work also functions as a visual echo chamber as it becomes disorienting when many viewers are in the gallery and their silhouettes are confused by the scrims.

Franz Ackermann's imagined and whimsical landscapes disorient yet engulf the viewer in a world full of colour and abstraction.

Metz effectively creates a disorienting space for the viewer, making it appear as though he copy - and - pasted one asymmetrical shape onto the gallery walls with intentional disregard for corners and doorways.

Gliding across the walls, The Wreck of the Dumaru F, 2004, a computer - animated digital projection, is downright disorienting, surrounding viewers on all sides and reaching from floor to ceiling.

Known for her enormous sculptures, whose disorienting effects the viewer feels instantly, German artist Katharina Fritsch plays on primeval desires and fears.

Janet Cardiff, a young Canadian artist, has created the show's amusingly disorienting audio guide, which takes the viewer into the Modern's permanent collection and beyond.

Fernández often uses materials physically extracted from the topography they depict, creating experiential environments that disorient and complicate the idea of place by asking viewers to locate themselves both physically, historically, and metaphorically within the works.

Philipsz deliberately selects particular pieces of music to reinterpret vocally and then separates the multiple audio tracks so that the «viewer» experiences different voices as they move through a space, creating a situation in which familiar music is heard differently and the human voice is understood in a radically different and physically disorienting manner.

Whatever the facts, Blachly and Shaw's roles as the delusional guardians of an almost certainly nonexistent archive have allowed them to employ a dizzying array of often contradictory strategies, layering irony, and apparent incompetence on sincere historical inquiry and emotion to create disorienting and comical experiences that leave viewers tantalizingly unsure as to the meaning or ultimate purpose of the Chadwicks» often Herculean efforts.

This powerful junction, with its dark grandeur and imposing presence, the scent of burnt wood lingering on its surface, manifests a disorienting assemblage of charred and blackened crossroads whose interior spaces transport the viewer to another world.