Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Independent Study: Dada Film
As a whole, Dada focused on the tension between the construction and deconstruction of life and anti-bourgeois politics. Specifically in film, Dadaists used film to capture the sensation of physical movement in their work, and saw in film the means of overcoming the static nature of painting.Dada-related films have several characteristics in common: they disrupt viewer expectations of a conventional narrative , use cinematic defamiliarization of social reality to undermine the norms and code of social convention, and are constantly pointing to the film apparatus as an illusion-producing machine.
(http://cinewiki.wikispaces.com/Dada+Film)
It does its job of taking art into the 20th century with moving images by attempting to capture the sensation of movement, and not just have static images.
(http://cinewiki.wikispaces.com/Dada+Film)
It does its job of taking art into the 20th century with moving images by attempting to capture the sensation of movement, and not just have static images.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Metropolis Analysis
Who made this? Fritz Lang, I know as we had talked about it in class.
Why? He made the movie as a message to say that there must be someone or something that brings the leaders and the workers together in understanding. He also wished to make the biggest movie of that time, and make an impression on the American market. (http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/25817%7C0/Metropolis.html)
What can we tell about the film-maker(s)? If what is said is true, that Lang wanted to create the biggest movie of the time, very ambitious and teeming with ideas, very inspired as well.
For whom was it made? How does it address its audience? What is the nature of our engagement with film? It was made for the people and the government.
What outside influences can we perceive in terms of finance, ownership, institution and sociocultural context? We can see the fallout of WWI on German society
What tradition is it in (for example, American gangster film, Bollywood musical)? The film is part of the German Expressionist movement, and matched up very well with the style of it with certain qualities of the film, like urban settings, complex architectural compositions, urban settings, madness, and obsession.
To what other works might it be connected? It is connected to all sci-fi films (i.e: Star Wars) due to being the first feature length sci-fi film.
Why? He made the movie as a message to say that there must be someone or something that brings the leaders and the workers together in understanding. He also wished to make the biggest movie of that time, and make an impression on the American market. (http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/25817%7C0/Metropolis.html)
What can we tell about the film-maker(s)? If what is said is true, that Lang wanted to create the biggest movie of the time, very ambitious and teeming with ideas, very inspired as well.
For whom was it made? How does it address its audience? What is the nature of our engagement with film? It was made for the people and the government.
What outside influences can we perceive in terms of finance, ownership, institution and sociocultural context? We can see the fallout of WWI on German society
What tradition is it in (for example, American gangster film, Bollywood musical)? The film is part of the German Expressionist movement, and matched up very well with the style of it with certain qualities of the film, like urban settings, complex architectural compositions, urban settings, madness, and obsession.
To what other works might it be connected? It is connected to all sci-fi films (i.e: Star Wars) due to being the first feature length sci-fi film.
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