Sentences with phrase «slightly surreal»

This well - made, but slightly surreal, commercial by the Canadian WWF tries to visually get the point across that individual good choices aren't always enough, and that government and industry must also play its part.

The Turner Prize — this year's short... a slightly surreal, art deco bondage magazine.

A number of exhibitions brought together by these artists, whose bright, multihued pieces riffed on the humorous and the slightly surreal.

In other work, George Boorujy's ink drawings, for example, offer slightly surreal renditions of roadside attractions — one image depicts two life size plastic deer atop an Amoco gas station.

Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

The world of Brazilian street artists Os Gemeos (aka identical twins Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo) is a slightly surreal, colorful and wildly - patterned one, populated with people and animals, boats and pyramids and cars and music.

To add to the slightly surreal feel of the whole thing, the beguiling sound designed by Jannik Giger also changes with the shapes.

MONA HATOUM: TERRA INFIRMA Four dozen sculptures and works on paper made over three decades by the Palestinian - English artist who slices directly through complex politics with a slightly surreal lean.

One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

Daniel Richter (b. 1962) is a German painter whose strongly coloured, often slightly surreal paintings convey current events and art historical issues with an irreverent and energetic approach.

In addition to making paintings and sculptures, which frequently incorporate slightly surreal figures and depictions of the natural world, he is also an author and trained physicist, having originally attended college to study applied and engineering physics at Cornell.

In May 2004, Mrs. HM and I went on a whistle - stop tour of Kyushu, the big southwestern chunk of Japan, home to Nagasaki, the steamy onsen town of Beppu and the slightly surreal Dutch theme park Huis Ten Bosch.

It's slightly surreal, almost like a fairy tale in the Brother's Grimm spirit.

Lovely pictures, precise and slightly surreal, help dramatize the young girl's sense of dislocation in the classroom.

It is also heartbreaking, slightly surreal, a modern fable

Laurie Foos is known for her slightly surreal fiction — that might be an understatement; after all, her last novel centered on a woman who loses her uterus in a shopping mall.

Experiencing this kind of acceleration in a car this big, and which still boasts such a majestic driving position, feels ever so slightly surreal to begin with.

The scenarios are slightly surreal — more objects to move, in this case mostly fruit, and the reward for getting it right involves an animated monkey bringing yet more fruit to a stash on her island — but she and most other students take on the task assiduously.

Joffe's film is gorgeous to look at — stunning cinematography by John Mathieson matched with superb art direction by Paul Ghiradani and Kellie Waugh, especially the slightly surreal scenes at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

I Am Not a Serial Killer sells itself on being one of those quirky and slightly surreal indie horror movies that has a premise that sounds familiar but adds a few twists and turns to throw you off your guard, and for the first half of the movie this approach generally works; the sense of a small town in the grip of an apparent serial killer comes across thanks to the geography of the houses and the interactions of the people we meet, and as a character John is well - written and superbly acted, making him instantly interesting and, despite his odd character traits, slightly endearing.

Even if it's slightly surreal, there's still this naivety.

At it's most interesting; director Daniel Ragussis finds the mundane amidst the, slightly surreal, hate.

While the tone of the film changes in the second portion (from dreamy ideals to stark realities), many sequences and shots still carry that slightly surreal aesthetic, which heightens the intrigue and beauty of this gritty working - class limbo; even more so than his other films, Mud showcases Nichols as a sharp and artistic visual storyteller.

It is a gentle comedy, slightly surreal, as you can see in the picture above, the main character likes to go round wearing comedy teeth and a wig.

Aided by Ernest Laszlo's cinematography, Maté creates a mood that is both hard - boiled and slightly surreal.

The film became progressively less and less interesting, even with the frequent appearances of saints (which gave the film a slightly surreal feel in the style of The Butcher Boy).

It doesn't seem new for them, yet as super polished, mannered, slightly surreal comedies go, the movie feels as rare as a unicorn.

It is, essentially, John Carpenter performing as John Carpenter, a slightly surreal situation in which the auteur has become so notorious that he riffs on his own notoriety — a musical 8 1/2.

Alongside the slightly surreal tale there is a sleepy village jam - packed full of eclectic over-the-top stereotypes including the ex-army kook and the trophy - obsessed P.E teacher.

Yet, as super-polished, mannered and slightly surreal comedies go, it feels as rare as a unicorn.

Filmed with uncomplicated precision and a keen eye for the slightly surreal, «Trees Lounge» augurs well for future Buscemi efforts and remains one of the most endearing indie pics of recent years.

This can often be slightly surreal.

And did I mention slightly surreal?!

There is something slightly surreal about sitting in a visiting room, having negotiated a set of elaborate security measures, including fingerprint scans, airlock doors and German shepherds, and watching a group of prisoners — including one of the country's most notorious inmates — hold up cardboard props and don mop heads for wigs, to the occasional shout of «Come on, daddy» from the audience.

We talk to illustrator and printmaker Belinda Chen from Bel's Art World about her incredible, slightly surreal screen prints and her inspirations.

Because you're used to hearing mums talk about, you know, childbirth and motherhood and the dad's just in the background nodding his head, so to hear them open up like that was slightly surreal but absolutely fantastic.

She said: «It's slightly surreal when these things happen.

It was a slightly surreal conversation.

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The entire experience was pretty surreal: entering a hot air balloon in the middle of the night while you're kind of slightly drunk already and gazing over a huge techno party happening on ground level.

The musical productions are wonderfully surreal, if slightly grotesque.

«There's that montage in the beginning where we are catching up to what Deadpool's been doing — his business as a contract killer has been growing and his own form of justice [has also] and I did want to have several styles in that montage that sort of culminate with one that was special and allowed for his voiceover to breathe, so it felt slightly off and surreal,» Leitch said.

It's very surreal to have this perspective where you experience reality in a slightly different way, and I think that's one of the things I'm interested in exploring.

Vince Vaughn and Christian Slater are perhaps slightly more surprising inclusions, while Nicolas Cage is only at 15th due to the fact he very occasionally makes a great movie amid all the surreal / banal ones.

But Lafleur's comic voice is quite distinct, given to surreal flights of fancy, a slightly discombobulating rhythm, and a general playfulness and visual inventiveness.

Challenging and creative work for teenagers in drama workshops A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley A tale concerning the perils of greed, self interest and narcissism Flexible staging and versatile character work Open to extreme creativity and physical comedy - a great workshop activity, but performances also possible with a licence Plot: Gerald is narcissistic, beautiful, vain and, unfortunately, extremely dim.

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT the famous Long Beach or for the slightly more adventurous at the top of the Slangkop Mountain with the village, sea and mountains as your surreal back drop.

Flight School Studio, the team behind surreal virtual reality (VR) narrative experience Manifest 99 has announced its next project, a slightly more light - hearted survival adventure called Island Time VR...

The paint handling is soft; the surface of the linen is rubbed or scraped flat and smooth, but the color is dappled rather than flat, which lends a slightly nocturnal or surreal cast - these may have been painted by day but they were conjured by night vision.

In Georgia Gardner Gray's Bad Habits (2017), baroque candelabra, curtains and ghoulish women wearing headscarves, all painted in saturated tones, appear slightly blurred, as though seen through wet glass; their shifting forms contrast with the crisp sheen of Orion Martin's equally surreal paintings Theater and Honeyboy (both 2017).