a naked woman
a movie by bruce conner
an atomic bomb
A MOVIE is an abstract collage of unrelated music and images, which Bruce Conner uses as a means of revealing the importance of association in the film making process. A cut between two disparate images inherently makes them related to one another, and Conner emphasizes this through images of surfers and an atomic bomb going off. The cut between the two pieces of footage causes the viewer to link…
A unique consideration of the scopophilic nature of cinema, in this film Barlett utilizes a split-screen mirror effect to create interesting and hallucinatory images. The film shows the viewer's eye looking back at them, and the symmetry of the framing on-screen forms a duality with the symmetry shared between the viewer's eye and the eye in the film. The eye in the film becomes like the camera lens, and the inherent voyeurism of cinema is revealed as the image becomes…
A fantastically crude and surreal animation about sexual perversion, Aos showcases scopophilic urges inherent of humanity, as well as points to the inherent sexual gaze of the movie camera and the viewer. Abstract imagery of sexual organs being contained or looked into are recurring symbols that both liberate sexuality and frustrate it. There is a lot of interesting imagery in this film unlike anything I've ever seen before, and I highly recommend you check it out.
My boyfriend and I attempted to guess which were guy butts and which were girl butts. That game proved to be challenging, and I believe Ono's intent was to confuse the male-gaze that is inherently embedded in cinema and put the viewer in a situation where they can not distinguish between the masculine or feminine. It's an interesting concept for a short, but past that it doesn't carry any stylistic or formal impact.
A radical rebel yell calling for equality in 1960s America. The movie utilizes a lot of great match cuts between still images of demonstrators and historical events as a means of providing it's message without any didactic dialogue. The film's soundtrack can barely be contained, and along with the images it is able to make the audience aware of social change needed to end inequality. The message of the film is contained to the black community of America, but the anti-racist theme is powerful enough to give this film continuing relevance.
A very interesting experiment in depth and framing, Weiss utilizes the boundaries of the camera as a means of distorting the human body into impossible positions. The chiaroscuro effect of the lighting and the asynchronous chiming of the music further disorient the viewer, making sure the movie lives up to its goal of producing hallucinatory effect. A very interesting little experiment in technique.
I recommend you check out korine1666's review of film since he watched it without sound (the way it was supposed to be experienced) and offers some insight into the effect that creates. I didn't realize this and watched it with sound, and after realizing that it was supposed to be a silent film a lot more makes sense (the music didn't complement the images very well in the version I saw). The film is a really unique piece of animation…
I assume this film was trying to force the viewer to witness as many grotesque taboos as possible in four minutes. The film shows it all, and the rapid editing ensures that the viewer never fully comprehends what they are looking at before the shot cuts to the next one. The gore and violence looks incredibly realistic because of this effect, and the mix of gore and sex is done in a hypnotic fashion that arouses both disgust and eroticism…
This is an incredibly trippy example of surrealist film that is ed by a lot of interesting camera and editing tricks. Maya Deren creates a fantastically abstract short filled with a great deal of strange and illusionistic imagery. The character's escape into dreams can be seen as a reaction to Freudian thought, and the bizarre imagery is packed full of motifs and symbols that repeat throughout the film.
I believe that the film carried a feminist message concerning women's desire…
This movie is a piece of art, and art is timeless. Anybody that says a film like this is "dated" must not understand the everlasting importance of a film like this. Not only is this film timeless, it also shows off the importance of film as a new and growing medium, a message that is still important and relevant today.
The film utilizes new and experimental techniques while documenting daily life in several Soviet cities. The movie may be the…
Daisies is my favorite film, so I'm going to do this review in two sections. I'm going to spend the first paragraph telling you why you should see the film; don't read the rest until you have, and hopefully I'll be convincing enough that you'll spend the next 70 minutes watching it. The rest of the review will explore why this film is my favorite.
Daisies is fun. It's about having fun and the film itself encomes fun. The editing…