Sentences with phrase «early cinema»

The influence of early cinema on this acclaimed Egyptian photographer is evident.
As my interest in early cinema continues to grow, so too does my curiosity.
The sense of monochrome touches on aspects of early cinema as well the aesthetics of historical photography.
At the same time I collected the artwork around early cinema, and walked miles to buy old postcards.
Kambalu's co-current exhibition Introduction to Nyau Cinema at the Whitechapel Gallery is inspired by early cinema and the experience of watching films as a child in Malawi.
The third collection of the brilliant «Treasures From American Film Archives,» which showcases 48 rarities made between the years 1900 to 1934, is loosely organized around themes of social issues and engagement and reveals a side of early cinema forgotten in the popularity of the comedy legends and silent screen heartthrobs.
Although digital video no longer inscribes temporality through the indexicality that marked early cinema, mashup is based upon an archival desire to hold on to moments of screen time that have already passed.
Made inside the camera entirely while on location, this process serves to restore the spontaneity and invention that distinguished early cinema in comparison to the relative ease and what Dean calls «the end of risk» afforded by digital postproduction.
While early cinema gave Ben - Ner a language, art history and body art gave him an unlimited bank of images from which to appropriate and with which to give shape and character to his players or to complement an idea or image.
For Frieze magazine, Morton reviewed Story's 2011 show, «Angeles», at Carl Freedman Gallery where she explored the world of early cinema with paintings of cameras in a subdued colour palette of off - whites and terracotta.
On another level, I also think that much of the genealogy of contemporary video art can be traced directly through early cinema — artists like Bruce Nauman and Joan Jonas.
The 16 mm film — silent, black and white, jerky, and sped - up — evokes early cinema, while its content locates it in the spare minimalism of the late 1960s.
Recalling both the shadow plays of early cinema pioneer Lotte Reiniger and expanded cinema works of the 1960s, Matreyek's work reimagines these approaches in the context of digital animation and multimedia theater.
She is currently completing a book about car crashes and film that includes chapters on early cinema, slapstick comedy, educational safety films, Warhol, and contemporary disaster films (forthcoming, Duke UP).
Khaisman is known for his «Tape Noir» projects where portraits of famous Hollywood actors from early cinema — James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Humphrey Bogart were created using utilitarian brown packing tape attached to a backlit acrylic screen.
ARTIST BIO Mere Phantoms is the Montreal - based duo Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson, who are inspired by early cinema, papercutting and shadow theatre.
As in early cinema, the typical Vine clip so far involves either animals, comedians, stop - motion animations, non-narrative abstractions, or some combination thereof.
Keaton's pared - down approach to production, and that of early cinema in general, suited Ben - Ner, who found himself simultaneously the director, cameraman, lead actor, and stuntman.
It's only a matter of time before we hear the backstory of the dastardly moustache - twiddling villain who frequently appeared in early cinema; right now I'm sure a Hollywood screenwriter is concocting a jolly good reason why he ended up tying women to train - tracks and swooshing a big cape.
Those distortions are given a life of their own with his digital tools and even become cinematic devices of their own, morphing from one image to another as if released by the ghosts of early cinema.
The four features are the highlights, but the totality celebrates the diversity of cinematic forms in early cinema: 30 - second «actualities,» newsreels, cartoons, political tracts, documentary exposés, and more.
Hugo is a story which exalts the magic and innovation of early cinema, and calls for the recognition of its pioneers.
Kinemacolor was one of the great British technical innovations of early cinema, transforming the films that were made with its «natural» colour process.
Hugo shows Scorsese's reverence for filmmaking, but far from just being a history lesson, he uses the latest techniques to delight in the magic of early cinema.
And it was just such a complete and total treat, just visually in its aesthetic, just such a tribute to early cinema and the origins of what obviously started to make Scorsese's mind tick with this love poem to the Méliès story.
Joan was and remains an unassailable giant of early cinema, a transcendental film comprising tears, fire and madness that relies on extreme close - ups of the human face.
He received his M.A. in Native American Studies, focusing on Native American exploitation in early cinema and his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma.
Supporting actress Patsy Kelly, one of the few openly gay women of early cinema, is clearly having fun camping it up with the bounty of 60s bikini - clad women, and chances are good that Kelly is the only one who got a lick of enjoyment out of this film.
Produced with Patrick Kelley, the videos» costumes, props, and black - and - white aesthetic pay homage to many visual worlds, including Cubism, early cinema, and cartoons.
His work draws on varied sources, including philosophy, literature and early cinema to create intricate art works and spellbinding environments in which he explores theories of time and relativity, the history of colonialism and the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.
Like so many of the participating galleries this year, Laurence Miller Gallery is featuring a single artist, in this case the famous innovator of photographic stop - motion techniques and arguably the forefather of early cinema — the British born Eadweard Muybridge.
Charlesworth's silhouettes allude to early cinema.
His studio practice involves animated gifs, figurative painting, social media, early cinema, computer glitches, theatrical design, culinary exploration, alchemy, and folk magic.
In her recent works she blends her passion for the early cinema's visual tricks and site - specific actions.
OPERA (QM.15) is influenced by the development of photography, early cinema and the interest in the uncanny shared by many 19th - century artists and writers.
The exhibition thus enriches our understanding of both early cinema and older fine arts media such as painting, drawing, and printmaking.
The exhibition unpicks this encyclopaedia of references — from early cinema to black cultural history to jazz.
Steffani Jemison's videos comprise tropes appropriated from early cinema, drawn out to stage and suspend empathy with the subject.
Early cinema influenced how Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque saw the world, helping to usher in cubism, as shown in the 2008 film Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies.
His work draws on varied sources, including philosophy, literature, and early cinema to create intricate artworks and spellbinding environments in which he explores theories of time and relativity, the history of colonialism and the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.
These flickering images can be traced back to the flipbooks, early cinema, and animation devices of the late nineteenth century.
The montage, collage and quotation strategies she uses are borrowed from the structures of early cinema, sitcom television, commercials, GIFs and Vines.
«This was taking cinema to a level of its own language, moving it beyond the influence of early cinema's dependence on theater as its grounding.
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