Not exact matches
As the
film progresses and the ball starts moving away
from its center position of the
image because of poor camera work, the algorithm can essentially rotate each key
frame so that the ball magically appears in the same spot in every
frame.
Presented in widescreen and fullscreen on the same side of a dual - layer DVD, the
film's
image lacks depth here — there's a muted, Seventies quality to Barry Stone's cinematography that no doubt looked smashing on the big screen and probably would've been marginally improved at home by dispensing with the fullscreen version (thus lessening the compromise of compression), which lops a significant amount of visual information
from the right side of the
frame (while restoring a negligible amount to the bottom — in one shot literally a pinkie toe).
Or rather a striking central performance
from Agata Trzebuchowska's face, because it is her watchful, dark - eyed, unblemished visage, usually
framed by a plain gray wimple that is perhaps the
film's most evocative recurring
image, even amongst so much truly remarkable cinematography (
from neophyte cinematographer Lucasz Zal).
With its ambiguous ending, Tattoo seems to evoke François Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), the legendary French New Wave
film about another «troubled» teenager who experiences freedom only when he is in motion — whether while spinning in a rotor's drum or when running away
from the reformatory in the
film's famous concluding tracking shot that culminates in a zoom - in - on - freeze -
frame image of his gaze addressing the camera.
In an early scene
from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, the panning camera reveals a
framed photograph of a young, smiling blond woman — except, the
image is on negative
film, which serves as a presumable correlation for disabled protagonist Jeff's (Jimmy Stewart) outlook on women, which is tested in his gaze and projected desire
from a lofty apartment window throughout the
film.
He explains that the
film's wiggly look is a result of hand tracing of video shots, with the
images changing slightly
from frame to
frame because of slight variations in the artists» many renderings of the
images.
The
film's weight comes
from the things we know about but can not see within the
frame: those haunting
images of emaciated Jews, the walking - dead stares of the prisoners consigned to the gas chambers and crematoria, the tragedy of systematic genocide.
I upgraded through the years, first to a letterboxed Japanese LaserDisc that improved the
film immeasurably, given Carpenter's skills with «scope
framing, and then to a snap - cased DVD
from Image Entertainment that felt like a gift
from Heaven.
In several shots
from 1974 that were
filmed with a stationary camera, and in at least one shot
from 1980, the picture develops a mild but unmistakable case of vertical jitters, with the
image shifting up and down a single pixel or two
from frame to
frame, indicating some minor registration problems during the
film - scanning or telecine process.
Playing like the first IMAX
film (which cut
from a small 1.33:1
image to the full IMAX
frame), «Poet» also makes good use of the surround channels, and it's nice to see such a rare promo piece make it's way to DVD.
Employing a range of techniques, including collage, hand - drawn rotoscoping — a technique that involves tracing
from frames of live
film footage — interlaced still photographic
images, and live 16 mm
film footage, Breer composes lively, nimble
films that present an intimate, modest, and personal portrait of slices of shared lives and eras.
February 27 — March 5 I ♥ Neutrinos: You Can't See Them but They are Everywhere (70 mm
Film Frames of Neutrino Movements — shot in 15 ft Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, Experiment 564 near Chicago — dunked in liquid nitrogen, neutrino movements events with invisible ink and decoder markers and highlighters, inked up by Monica Kogler and Jwest,
film roll
from Janet Conrad, MIT Professor of Physics) 2011, 37 seconds Roll of specialized
film for scientific use of about 1,000
Images transferred to high - definition video on a hand - made telecine device, no sound Made while Jennifer West was an Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA in 2011; Funded, in part, by the Nimoy Visual Artist Residencies program of the Nimoy Foundation.
Image:
Frame from Tacita Dean, Day for Night, 2009; 16 mm color
film, silent, 10 min.; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Tacita Dean
The prints are hung in a grid of static
images like still
frames from a
film, sequenced to parallel the chronology of movement on an illuminated marquee.
Curated by the DMA's Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Gavin Delahunty with the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Truth takes its name
from the well - known quotation by French
film director Jean - Luc Goddard, «[t] he cinema is truth 24
frames per second,» which suggests that the moving
image is particularly capable of ethically and creatively capturing a meaningful construction or
framing of reality.
Since this project is predominately created without the use of a camera, the resulting
images from the assorted elements cover several inches of the
film, neglecting the conventional
frame lines produced by camera shutters.
Oursler has broken new ground in the world of video art by freeing the
image from the cumbersome boundaries of the video monitor, conventional
film screen and picture
frame.
Each
image features multiple -
frames from Kluge's collage - style, impressionistic
films Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed and The Indomitable Leni Peickert.
In «Self - Portrait (I am too sad to tell you, after Bas Jan Ader)» (2003), he offers an
image of himself patterned on a
film frame from a crying performance by a long - deceased Dutch conceptual artist.
Via a video downlink,
images from the air can be viewed on the ground in real time, enabling the Pilot, Cameraman and Client full control of the
filming angles and
framing.