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Tag Archives: film
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen died today. He was an intrepid animator devoted to stop action. This is the tedious and painstaking technique of minutely moving parts of objects/models, taking a single frame, and then minutely moving them again, taking another single frame, … Continue reading
Posted in animation, family, film
Tagged Dynamation, film, Ray Harryhausen, stop-action animation
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Disney’s Taxi-Driver
Posted in film, short films, videos
Tagged Bryan Boyce, film, indie films, short films, Taxi Driver, Walt Disney
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Michalek’s slow portraiture
David Michalek, a former commercial photographer, focuses on portraiture as inspiration for his art. The series, Portraits in Dramatic Time, feature actors in a dramatic sequence which lasts between 10 to 15 seconds. This 10 seconds is then slowed way … Continue reading
Posted in acting, art, film, short films
Tagged acting, Alan Rickman, art, David Michalek, film, indie films, short films, slow motion, videos
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Transporting and transforming
We just went to see Scorcese’s Hugo, based on Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an amazing graphic novel in its own right. This movie was a beautifully emotional and visually awesome paean to the magic of film, the poignancy … Continue reading
Dimensions of Dialogue by Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer- a Czech filmmaker, puppeteer, and artist born in 1934- is one of my favorite animators. He has refined and mastered, with obsessive attention to detail, the stop action film technique. Below are three of his short films from … Continue reading
Posted in animation, short films, videos
Tagged animation, Dimensions of Dialogue, film, Jan Svankmajer, short films, stop-action, videos
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It is in doing what one wants to do, that one becomes who one wants to be.
In short films today, a student shared the following video by Remi Gaillard, french performance artist. He is famous for playing pranks on real people in real places with his accomplice capturing the responses on a hidden camera. Gaillard’s motto … Continue reading
Posted in humor, performance, short films, videos
Tagged film, humor, indie films, performance, Remi Gaillard, short films, videos
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William Kentridge- Automatic Writing
Animated, smudged, and morphing language, visuals, words, imagination, motion, reverie, images, poetry… Kentridge is a remarkable animator, artist, playwright from South Africa. I’m so grateful a friend of mine reminded me of his work and sent me this link.
Posted in animation, art, artist, short films, videos, words
Tagged animation, art, artist, film, indie films, short film, videos, william kentridge, words
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Lillian Gish and Lady Gaga
We’re halfway through watching D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Birth of a Nation. Not an easy movie to watch—filled with racism and revisionist history. We have been immersed in the intricacies of Reconstruction and it seemed a perfect way to discuss how the … Continue reading
Posted in acting, history, school, Teaching, truth
Tagged acting, Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, film, history, lady gaga, lillian gish, reconstruction, school, silent film, teaching, truth
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