This publication details the more than 40 screenings, performances and
experimental films making up this genre - bending blend of science and art.
It takes inspiration from Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), a French
experimental film made entirely from still photographs.
The grainy, poignant
experimental films made a couple of people flee, but mostly they found a sympathetic audience of hard - core video lovers and art historians who had arrived in Barcelona for the LOOP Video Fair, opening the next day in Hotel Catalonia Ramblas.
Not exact matches
She added, «Winning the gold award for such an
experimental film, tackling a really complex topic, is such an unexpected honor and inspires me to
make more
films like this.»
The former
experimental film director instills eco-kudos in her bijoux by ensuring that all her gemstones and semi-precious stones are ethically sourced, and of course she hand -
makes each piece in her own New York based studio.
Glazer has only
made two feature
films, both interesting and
experimental explorations of comfortable, stable existences broken by the sudden arrival of an intruder.
The
experimental nature of the
film also proves a charm, the ten minute shots
make interesting viewing and a high budget cyclorama backdrop that includes the empire state building
makes the
film look much more modern than anything else from the 1940's.
Lowery is spending the capital he's earned on big gigs like Pete's Dragon to
make something bizarre and
experimental, and as his
film starts flitting through the weeks in unannounced leaps, you'll come to appreciate his gamble.
Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland did their own painting with light,
making The Long Voyage Home his most visually
experimental film.
The more
experimental documentaries have historically fared poorly in the Oscar race, and while
making it onto the nine -
film shortlist was a victory of its own, Johnson's
film couldn't win over the voting body.
Martine is
making an
experimental short
film about scorpions and ants, and for the soundtrack, she requires — oh, all sorts of sounds.
The director, Christophe Gans, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, scratchy
film stock and surrealistic images and
makes «Silent Hill» look more like an
experimental art
film than a horror
film — except for the horror, of course.
His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever
made — it's a difficult
film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an
experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.
What's left is this appreciation of a
film that is delighted with cinema and
experimental without being a jerk about it (very much like Lars Von Trier's Zentropa, specifically in a black - and - white rear - process cab ride with none of that feeling that Tarantino's trying to
make a point as opposed to recognizing something that looks cool and feels right)-- a
film that is Tarantino in all his gawky, hyperactive, movie - geeking, idioglossic splendour, fully - formed and trying only a bit too hard.
The aforementioned low budget allows him to be more
experimental with his shots and
filming style,
making for an entertaining viewing experience.
Clint Eastwood's 15:17 To Paris (2018) is one of the oddest and even most
experimental films the director has ever
made.
One could even go far as to see it as his proto - «Schizopolis,» the
experimental film that Steven Soderbergh
made as a cathartic purge to get him out of his filmmaking funk.
She's only 28 years old and this is her first
film score — she's probably best known as Micachu of the
experimental pop band The Shapes — which
makes her the rare woman composing music for movies today.
I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract
films and short
experimental videos than I do watching feature
films; in part because I
make experimental films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in feature
films; but instead work in video art and
experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art forms, such as gifs.
If the premise
makes it sound like Glazer's sold out and
made a commercial horror / sci - fi genre picture, you couldn't be more wrong — this is the filmmaker at his most
experimental and unfiltered, with stunning images that of all three of his
films to date, is most reminiscent of his unforgettable commercials work (more on this below).
While Russell largely fails to
make dramatic connections and bring us into the inner world of his characters» conflicted desires, he succeeds mightily in
making a
film of often breathtaking beauty that balances the conventions of the British costume drama with his
experimental proclivities.
Conventional melodramas,
experimental films, and trashy midnight cult -
films - in - the -
making.
We figured it might
make the list somewhere, given our rave review, but we didn't imagine that an
experimental art
film about a sadomasochistic couple would appear on more lists than any
film bar our winner, much less
make the final top three.
Another a showstopper set at the Griffith observatory, brought to life from composer (and best friend to Chazelle since their time as band - mates at Harvard) Justin Hurwitz, with whom he worked on the
film for over a half - decade (even before the breakthrough of Whiplash in the theaters), fleshing out a few concepts from an
experimental musical
film they had
made together in 2009 called Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
Even if Isle of Dogs is at once Anderson's densest and fleetest
film to date, it's nevertheless obsessive - compulsive enough to
make the occasional handheld shots from 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums and 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou seem daring and
experimental in retrospect.
«We
make sure all of our
films, while very artistic and
experimental, also stand up to the rigors of The New York Times,» executive producer Kathleen Lingo tells TheWrap
A
film may also have an artistic edge that qualifies it as a DocDays, such as Bill Morrison's
experimental Dawson City: Frozen Time, which told the story of this remote gold rush town
made using early
film stock that was discovered there, buried underneath an ice rink for over 50 years.
Harmonix (Dance Central, Rock Band) has
made an effort to bring Disney's classic musically
experimental film, Fantasia, to life in a sense with Kinect gameplay, set on a mission from Mickey's own magical mentor, Yen Sid, not to dance, but to compose songs, including Frozen's «Let It Go,» OneRepublic, Demi Lovato, Imagine Dragons and Cee Lo Green tracks.
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's launched an «
experimental studio» to
make short
films.
Using a large format
film camera, Eaton has developed an increasingly complex,
experimental approach to image
making.
Still from Love / Amor, an
experimental film by CCA lecturer Shylah Hamilton on view in HOME:
Making Space for Radical Love and Struggle
Lis Rhodes (b. 1942) Since the 1970s, Rhodes has been
making radical and
experimental films that challenge the viewer to reconsider
film as a medium of communication and presentation of image, language, and sound.
An influential artist in the fields of kinetic sculpture and
experimental filmmaking during the mid-to-late twentieth century, Breer
made stop - motion
films that grew out of a desire to imbue his paintings with movement.
Joe Gibbons is recognized as a groundbreaking filmmaker in
experimental autobiography and has
made over 30
films.
Trilogy includes three
films made between 2004 — 2007: The Paper Wall, 2004, (won the Worldwide Short Film Festival's Best
Experimental Film Award); A Life of Errors, 2006 (acquired & exhibited by the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden); Loudly, Death Unties, 2007 (acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto).
He created sculptures out of urethane foam and plexiglass,
made olfactory installations, and directed
experimental films including the scandalous The Secret Life of Hernado Cortez, a pornographic cult classic starring Warholian superstars Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead.
After
making seven
experimental feature
films — «Lives of Performers» (1972) and «MURDER and murder» (1996), among others — she returned to dance in 2000 via a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation («After Many a Summer Dies the Swan»).
After
making seven
experimental feature - length
films — Lives of Performers, Privilege, and MURDER and murder, among others — she returned to dance in 2000 via a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation (After Many a Summer Dies the Swan).
We spoke to a versatile feminist artist and
experimental filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson about her works and her source of inspirations, and
made it as a short
film.
The
film was an
experimental work that led to Keane evolving and learning new technology: she said that she «invented the techniques to show the concept... the process of
making the work was very important.»
After working as part of the London based music and performance collective, The Scratch Orchestra, he went on to
make the On the Air Trilogy, a series of
experimental films for British television exploring the nature of the broadcasting experience and ran the New Cinema Workshop at the Midland Group in Nottingham.
He worked as a dresser at the English National Opera and appeared in an
experimental film by his friend Derek Jarman, while
making pictures he recalls as «cartoonlike and urban.»
The artist's immersive
film installations often include durational performance,
experimental theatre, and variations of delegated creations of artistic objects and spaces which combine the work of architects, musicians, scientists, and craftsmen as well as factory -
made products, all chosen for specific contextual and historical significance.
We present rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics, new and historic works by the world's great
film directors, restored silent
films with live musical accompaniment, thematic retrospectives, and innovative works
made by today's
film, video, and new media artists working in the areas of animation, documentary,
experimental, and fiction
film.
Working independently of the Thai commercial
film industry, he is active in promoting
experimental and independent
film -
making through his company Kick the Machine.
He
made experimental films, which he often integrated in his paintings, such as Suzanna, Suzanna of 1964, in which short videos are projected directly onto the canvas.
It ranges from a rebus - like
experimental film telling a French fairy tale (also on display, incidentally, in a concurrent show at Michael Werner gallery on the Upper East Side), to a full - sized recreation of his own Brussels apartment — the walls studded with words relating to art -
making («Canvas,» «Museum,» «Composition,» etc.).
Rooted within the discourse of mid-twentieth century
experimental film, Smith draws equally from the tactics of structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction in an attempt to
make things that nod to these references while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants.
The first exhibition in China to focus on the
experimental, mechanically produced areas of Warhol's practice, Andy Warhol: Contact features photographs, installations, and
films that broke the boundaries of contemporary art when they were first
made, and still compel viewers today with their extraordinary immediacy.
Experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas recalls the
making of Andy Warhol's radically sparse
film «Empire».