Often isolating the dolls and photographing them situated in tiny, austere settings, Simmons
uses fictional scenes to make observations about real life.
Not exact matches
You can also learn about the real - world plant and animal life that inspired Avatar's
fictional flora and fauna, peer inside the Armored Mobility Platform suit that was
used in combat
scenes, and examine the filmmakers» models of Na» vi characters and their costumes.
He also makes hugely imaginative
use of flashbacks, explaining the origins of certain characters, and even showing
scenes of «
fictional» stories that never took place (such as Tim Roth's men's room story).
In a previous blog post I explained how creative nonfiction
uses thorough research, facts, and real people and events as well as
fictional techniques like
scenes and narrative arcs.
I don't knock the developer's choice to
use a
fictional language and therefore subtitle the entire thing, but it felt more budgetary then creative, especially when the dialogue was so bad that it had me bashing the circle button to skip cut
scenes at points throughout the game.
Perhaps the most famous work in this vein, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin from 1987, featured a mess of
used rag dolls, animals and blankets strewn across a canvas, a way of investing a
fictional childhood
scene with some visceral pathos which was first shown at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.