I've been
shooting film portraits that are a little bit like the Warhol screen tests.
Not exact matches
But the
film's final
shot suggests Welles's Falstaff represent more than an overblown self -
portrait.
Cooper and his director of photography Masanobu Takayanagi (who also worked on the filmmaker's last two movies) paint a visually striking but harsh and brutal
portrait of the scenery here, placing an emphasis on long
shots of desolate landscapes and closeups of human anguish in order to create the
film's dismal mood.
As the first
film shot in Atikamekw, a dialect of the Algonquian Cree language, it is an engaging
portrait of a young man who finds himself in an awful situation, one in which he's forced to come to terms with his actions.
There's sweetness and sadness in a
film that makes hearts soar with its Bowie - set dance through the New York streets, and invites ample cringing in its protagonist's awkward encounters, but mostly there's recognition of the authenticity of its immaculately -
shot quarter - life crisis
portrait.
Frank desperately desires the power that Morton's money and influence commands, and the
film becomes, in part, a
portrait of his failure to straddle the line between old world (
shoot first, ask questions never) and new world (wielding money as a weapon) criminality.
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest
film, Phantom Thread, a
portrait of a fictional fashion designer in the couture scene of 1955 London, indulges in similar revels, placing the
film firmly in the tradition of the melodramatic women's pictures of the 1940s: it's filled with achingly vivid close - ups (Anderson also
shot the
film) of shining colored threads, needles piercing thick fabric, rough - edged hand - sewn labels, intricate lace patterns, and rich cloth falling in sculptural folds.
This Is Not a
Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11),
shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self -
portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of
film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a
film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»
Beginning with
shots of the violent evisceration of a truck — guts, fluids, and all — the
film becomes a moving
portrait of idiosyncratic characters and the force of community in the midst of a profusion of carefully dissected and categorized automobile detritus.
The White Ribbon (Sony)-- Winner of the Palm D'or at the 2009 Cannes
Film Festival and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language
Film and Best Cinematography, Michael Haneke's
portrait of rural life in Germany before World War II is a beautifully
shot film that evokes nostalgia in the austere black - and - white imagery while revealing a corrupt culture under the surface.
Whether you like the
film or not, this is a revealing
portrait of how a
film gets
shot and how the realities of
shooting conditions challenge the filmmakers and affect the finished production, and joins the growing list of superior documentaries on filmmaking created specifically for home video releases.
The Manson Family isn't a perfect
film by a long
shot (framing stories are the pits), but it portrays atrocity as atrocity with the mean precision of John McNaughton's Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer.
With his underappreciated first English - language
film, a relationship drama
shot near his island retreat of Fårö, Bergman delivered a compelling
portrait of conflicting desires.
The hotel suite he's in to answer questions about the
film, King Cobra, is filled with personal publicists,
film reps, a photographer
shooting Vanity Fair
portraits, his co-stars — Christian Slater and Garrett Clayton — as well as the
film's director, Justin Kelly.
There are many extraordinary moments, beautiful
shots and intoxicating rushes of pure teenage adrenalin in British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's fractured
portrait of American teenagers — which makes it all the more frustrating that her fourth
film stops short of being more than a fitfully exciting, overlong experiment.
The relationships and events amount to a credible
portrait of modern city and family life, but it's the intimate, improvised
shooting style (16 mm, natural light, all on location) and Michael Nyman's evocative, memorable score (this often feels like a
film made to music) that define the
film and give it the sense of immediacy and compassion that make it so enduring.
Sherman first
shot onto the New York art scene in the 1970s with her «Untitled
Film Stills,» a series of black - and - white
film noire style
portraits of Sherman herself, donning stereotypical female roles like damsel in distress or femme fatale.
For the
portraits,
shot primarily in black - and - white
film, she asks her subjects to look at her directly in the eye, effectively breaking down the hierarchy of photographer and subject.
Goldschmied & Chiari selected for The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., biennial exhibition series «Women to Watch,» June 5 - Sept 13, 2015, http://nmwa.org/press-room/press-releases/national-museum-women-arts-announces-artists-featured-biennial-exhibition Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «Negative Space,» curated by Gabrielle Garland and Stacie Johnson, The Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY, Feb 28 - April 12, http://knockdown.center/event/negative-space/ Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «I Serve Art,» curated by Sara Reisman, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Visual Arts Building, SUNY Purchase, Feb 17 - Mar 27, https://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/artdesign/richardanddollymaassgallery.aspx Josh Slater
film «A Short Coma,» and interview featured in The Creators Connect, http://www.thecreatorsconnect.com/meet-josh-slater/ Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «Flat by Fiat,» Brooklyn, Jan 31 - Feb 21, 2015, open by appointment Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits listed in «Feature
Shoot Recommends: Top 10 Photo Events and Happenings in New York (Jan. 19 - 25),» by Ellyn Kail, Jan 19, 2015 http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/01/feature-
shoot-recommends-top-10-photo-events-happenings-new-york-jan-19-25/ Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits reviewed in the New Yorker Jan 12, 2015 http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/goldschmied-chiari Loring Knoblauch's review «Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits @kristenlorello» in Collector Daily Jan 12, 2015 http://collectordaily.com/artists/sara-goldschmied-and-eleonora-chiari/ Giacinto Occhionero in group exhibition, «You Don't Bring Me Flowers (+ The Mistress Project), Jan 24 - Mar 7, 2015, http://www.68projects.com/category/exhibitions-future/ Goldschmied & Chiari in group exhibition «Florilegia,» at Grimaldi Gavin, London, Jan 16 - Feb 28, 2014, http://www.grimaldigavin.com/index.php?method=section&action=zoom&id=160&lng=1&forceID=1e3f75e0c66514dbd92d42cc43bbfd19
New Zealand - born Thompson, 30, is shortlisted for a silent black - and - white 35 mm
film portrait of Diamond Reynolds, whose boyfriend was
shot by police in Minnesota — a shocking event she livestreamed on Facebook.
She
shot and edited the
film In the Street with Janice Loeb and James Agee, providing a moving
portrait of her still photography.
A
portrait of Fujiwara's secondary school art teacher, Joanne Salley, who was fired after students found and circulated photographs of her topless, the
film showcases Salley's diverse roles and identities, albeit through clichéd
shots of her modeling and working out, as well as through teary scenes in which she discusses her difficult childhood and the loss of her teaching job.
The exhibition will also present recent
portraits, interviews and
film footage, including some moving image pieces
shot in Lampedusa and Sicily showing interviews with the people he photographed in 2015.
The black - and - white
film is a silent
portrait of Diamond Reynolds, the Minnesota woman who in July 2016 used Facebook Live to broadcast the moments immediately after Philando Castile, her partner, was
shot by police officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop.
Includes candid personality
shots (playing tennis at home, dressed as a pirate in manacles, etc.) and
film portraits and scenes from Montana Moon, Rain, Today We Live, Ice Follies of 1939, Johnny Guitar, Autumn Leaves and more.
In quiet, contemplative tones and
shot in black and white, My Education: A
Portrait of David Hilliard uses multiple camera angles to reveal different, contrasting views of the same subjects, and the
film raises questions and invites discussion about a fraught moment in American history that continues to ripple through society.
Now the artist, who has established a career making
portraits of women in lonely, haunting environments — and who has
shot numerous fashion campaigns and editorials, including for Bottega Veneta and W Magazine — unveils Face in the Crowd at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., alongside a short
film starring Elizabeth Banks.
The images in this collection include photographs, artist
portraits,
film stills, production
shots, slides, chromes, negatives, artist drawings, and contact sheets.
In this work Shulie (1997) Subrin remade, almost
shot for
shot, a rediscovered 1967
film produced by four male graduate students about a young female art student, 22 year - old Shulamith Firestone, in an attempt to create a
portrait of the «Now» generation.
Frank W. Ockenfels 3 (BFA 1983 Photography) One of the most sought - after
portrait photographers in America; work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Us, Premiere, Esquire, New York Magazine, Spin;
shot album covers for David Bowie, REM, Queen Latifah, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Melissa Etheridge, Don Henley; created images for television shows such as Mad Men, Wanted and for
films such as Coraline, Wolfman, the Harry Potter series