Sentences with phrase «new medium of film»

The show then explores how the new medium of film impacted visual artists at the beginning of the 20th century, revealing, for example, that Ashcan

«To investigate these two great artistic enterprises — fine arts and motion pictures — at the moment when the new medium of film emerged is tremendously exciting,» observes Mathews.

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If the experience of reading Collins's novel is one of being inside a horrifyingly brutal reality television show, the experience the film adaptation offers is one more akin to watching one, and its success depends on our awareness of this relatively new medium as well as our willingness to critique it.

As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

Everyone's favourite characters, much of the surreal narration (delivered with perfect dryness by Stephen Fry), and the original's distinctive theme music, are all present and accounted for — and in an age where CGI has become the slick new medium for special visual effects, an inordinate amount of physical modelling and creature puppetry have been used to give the film a refreshingly organic retro look, as though the crew from the original TV series had been lured back to their old tools by a much bigger budget.

Every year, the SR Socially Relevant (TM) Film Festival New York highlights films using the medium to raise awareness for vital social issues of the day.

There are two possible effects that come from lifting the title of a respected movie classic: on the one hand, it can be perceived as an audacious, assuring wink to savvy viewers that you're aware, as a filmmaker, of your movie's debt to hallowed classics of the medium; on the other hand, it can serve to accentuate how much more desirable revisiting older, better films would be, than to sit through a pretty bad new one.

Her earliest film credits brim with roles enlivened by the jubilant verve of a performer unmistakably new to the medium.

I'm excited to share this report of a promising new hub named Softy.tv for audiences to experience and enjoy more from this branch of the film medium.

That it messes with structure and medium is nothing new, but as with the casting of Downey Jr. and Monaghan as grammar - school classmates (even as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment of women, it's guilty of it), as it's fucking with the way we look at film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.

«On Chesil Beach» is his first feature film, and yet it's hard to imagine such a seasoned director being so intimidated by the new medium that he would turn in a film that's accidentally devoid of intention, purpose, meaning or inflection.

Anime has always had a certain eccentricity about it (think of some of the stranger sequences in touchstone titles like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, or anything at the edges of the output of supposedly child - orientated Studio Ghibli), but the films which LEAFF selected to honour the medium's milestone take this eclectic, imaginative approach to storytelling to new levels, loosening the limits of the logic of reality, and travelling through the very fabric of space and time.

And in his feature film debut, Sean Durkin takes full advantage of his chosen medium's advantages, making «Martha Marcy May Marlene» one of the most immaculately edited new films we can remember.

Based on Noel Coward's stage play, which was still packing in audiences when the film was released, it sees socialite Charles Condomine hire a medium to conduct a seance in his home — only for the ghost of his dead first wife to begin haunting him and his new wife.

From the film's opening passage, Lubitsch demonstrates his new facility with the norms of Hollywood editing: following a humorous inter-title stating that «Lady Windermere faced the grave problem — of seating her dinner guests,» Lubitsch opens with an establishing shot of a voluminous interior with the woman seated at a desk; the director dissolves to a medium - close - up of the woman arranging her placards; and then to point - of - view close - up as she places Lord Darlington's carefully beside her own, her fingers softly tapping the folded paper.

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: To say that Charlie Kaufman «Äôs «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now... Despite its slippery way with time and space and narrative and Mr. Kaufman «Äôs controlled grasp of the medium, «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness.

A medium talent at music in his youth, Danny, in the film's opening moments, is stuck in New York City traffic (made better by the nostalgic sounds of Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's «Head to Toe» on the radio) while seeing his daughter (Grace Van Patten) off to film school at Bard following his recent separation from his wife.

Firth begins the film by stepping up to a microphone as if going to the gallows; as the second son of King George V (Michael Gambon), he's expected to make public addresses using the new medium of radio, which simply heightens his lifelong humiliation by bringing his awkward stuttering and choked speech to a far larger audience.

It did so at the dawn of a new era for independent American narrative film, as pictures such as Medium Cool, Easy Rider, and Putney Swope were also taking shape.

Ferrell and McKay don't the get the same kind of attention that Christopher Guest and his cohorts do for making films where much of the material is improvised, but they certainly should, as they are taking the medium to a new level.

Of course, the end result is helping writers communicate their passion to the masses, to encourage creative types in spreading their words, messages, and souls via book, film, television, music, or whatever new form of medium is yet to come down the proverbial patOf course, the end result is helping writers communicate their passion to the masses, to encourage creative types in spreading their words, messages, and souls via book, film, television, music, or whatever new form of medium is yet to come down the proverbial patof medium is yet to come down the proverbial path.

The industry has a number of irons already in the fire for 2016 across a number of mediums, ranging from film to new platforms.

This is taking the franchise into a brand new medium for the first time; more comparable to a film adaptation of a book than a simple new port of a console videogame.

In the games coverage of today, VR is covered somewhat but is yet to reach the levels of the established consoles and portables most players have; however when asked about their large focus on VR, Warren told us that with VR, films can suddenly allow for branching story lines and «choice», a concept that is very basic for games, but exceedingly new for film, saying, «I think VR is a medium in which film makers and game makers can actually work together.

Already by the mid-1960s, painting had lost its authority as the dominant artistic medium and instead galleries had begun to show much more heterogeneous experimental and sometimes politically and socially provocative work in new media (film, video, and photography), as well as confrontational live art and other kinds of participatory and performance - based approaches.

Neshat, who is an Iranian - born artist and filmmaker living in New York, explores and experiments with the mediums of photography, video, and film, continuously pushing new boundariNew York, explores and experiments with the mediums of photography, video, and film, continuously pushing new boundarinew boundaries.

The 1973 film followed fifteen years of movies that helped to define the French New Wave, but it offers his tribute to a entire medium.

Known for its competitive «New Genres» program — spanning installation, video, film, audio, performance, and assorted digital mediums — this unique area of study questions «preconceived notions of the role of art in culture and its relationship to a specific form or medium,» according to the school's literature.

A pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works, and paintings, he challenged the limitations of medium, genre, and style, constantly breaking new ground.

He furthermore considers this new landscape to be polyphonic — where many different things happen at once on many different mediums: «Each of us are authoring our own film in real - time.»

A pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works, and paintings, Bruce Conner challenged the limitations of medium, genre, and style, constantly breaking new ground.

Beckman's work consistently treats film as a performance medium, and draws on the pioneering energy of her years at CalArts and the do - it - yourself sensibilities of New York's Downtown Scene in the late 1970s and early 80s.

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

Two years later, he turned to a Hasselblad medium - format camera and began shooting his circle of friends and acquaintances — artists, musicians, socialites, pornographic film stars, and members of the S & M underground in New York City.

Titles include Boomerang by Richard Serra (1974), featuring Nancy Holt vibrantly experimenting with the then - new and immediate medium of video; SHEDS (Jane Crawford and Robert Fiore), a short documentary produced for the 2004 Robert Smithson retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, that features newly compiled footage of two Smithson works (Partially Buried Woodshed and Mica Spread); video excerpts from artist Renee Green's Partially Buried gallery installation; and the experimental 16 mm films Monuments by Redmond Entwistle (2010) and Center of the Cyclone by Heather Trawick (2015), among other titles.

A Bay Area pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works, and paintings, Conner challenged the limitations of medium, genre, and style, constantly breaking new ground.

Following a private viewing of Richardson's latest 3D video installation, «Rehearsal», on January 8, the artist - run gallery, headed by its founder and director Joe Madeira, will be showing an exhibition of the artist's new works, marked by his ventures into multiple mediums, including photography, sound, digital film, 3D animation and, of course, installation.

Expanding beyond the rhinestone embellished paintings for which she is recognized, Mickalene Thomas continues to explore new mediums with her first exhibition of photographs at the Aperture Foundation and a presentation of film and video work at the Aspen Art Museum.

This new landmark exhibition from explores celebrated artist Tacita Dean's longstanding interest in portraiture, as the first exhibition in the gallery's history to be dedicated to the medium of film.

New York's American Medium gallery will host a number of events at their space over the winter season, with three sections: Alignment presents readings, Folds of Existence presents a series of film screenings and a set of experimental performances in Nocturnal Sub.missions.

the mutual fascination between practitioners of the fine arts and film in the early days of the new medium.

More recently, Dean has addressed the relationship between theatre and film — notably in Event for a Stage (2015), a collaboration with the actor Stephen Dillane, which began as a series of live performances — opening up a new front in her challenge to conventional hierarchies of narrative, medium and genre.

After nine years of living and working in East London, he moved to New York City last October where, alongside illustration, he continues to explore other mediums such as film, animation, installations, books, clothing, product design and music projects.

Using a daylight studio on location and shooting 6 x 9 medium format film, this new body of work focuses on the young female citizens of Leonce's hometown Porto - Novo, Benin's capital.

Haunted Ethnography: new experimental documentary is a group exhibition and related indoor screening event showcasing several recent video and experimental film works by emerging artists exploring the rich but problematic genre of ethnographic documentary as a locus of aesthetic and conceptual innovation in the medium.

This major new exhibition focuses on portraiture primarily through the medium of 16 mm film.

Based in New York, Parisian - born artist Cyril Duval (b. 1979) travels through the mediums of art, design, film & visual communication under the fictional alter ego brand ITEM IDEM (Latin for «the same»).

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise new narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

As the Aspen Art Museum's 2015 — 2016 Gabriela and Ramiro Garza Distinguished Artist in Residence, New York — based artist Mickalene Thomas has developed a new body of work in the medium of film and vidNew York — based artist Mickalene Thomas has developed a new body of work in the medium of film and vidnew body of work in the medium of film and video.