I don't remember the name of it, but I really liked the one where it was one continuous sideways dolly shot of different types of art such as: dancing, painting, photo, and had the two men shooting each other at the end. It was a very simple idea that I thought was executed very well. The dolly had you anticipating what was coming next and wanting to keep watching. There was depth to the shot and the composition of each split second was planned to perfection. I also enjoyed "Which Country Have I Landed" mostly because of the location and the fact that the third wall was broken. Lastly, I enjoyed the one where the little girl kept getting picked up and taken off the weigh machine or the viewing scope and hitting everyone with here suitcase. It was a cute idea and comical. -Jaymes Gardzinski
I thought Spike Lee's short was quite amusing. All you see is a baby in a stroller with Spike behind the camera asking him to say "dada". You kind of knew that the baby wasn't going to speak but as I was watching it I started to hope that he would at least say something. The simplicity of it was what I found interesting. Another short that caught my attention was the one of the serpentine dancer. It was the only short that utilized colors. After watching one black and white film after another, seeing some color was definitely refreshing.
My favorite was the one with the little girl and the suitcase. That little girl showed such personality. I also think it highlighted the joy of having your parent stick up for you. I assumed her dad was the one putting her on his shoulders. I also thought it resembled a family movie, similar to that which the Lumiere brothers created. I expected the one about the guy that walks in and out of jail everyday to be a little more interesting...maybe see him walk back in.
The short that sticks out the most in my mind is the one by Zhang Yimou that was shot on the Great Wall of China. When it began with the man and the woman in period costumes, playing an instrument and waving a fan, respectively, I prepared myself for a dull 52 seconds, but then they shook things up! I loved how Yimou entered the frame with the slate. Since the documentary was an homage to the history of film itself I found it delightfully fitting that the director showed within the story that filmmaking has its own story. It was comical to see the transformation of the actors from traditional players to contemporary rockers. Seeing a guy rocking out and a scantily clad woman dancing on the Great Wall was amusing because it combined the traditional with the new. This short was one of the few that made me laugh out loud.
A few days ago I wrote a post with no success due to posting issues, and one of my arguments was against Spike Lee's film. Initially, I was shocked that Spike's short was so random, and look like it was just Spike filming maybe his child. That all changed when we spoke about it in class today. I finally learned that Spike was recreating a scene from past videos. Im glad that i learned this before i posted my comments. I guess my favorite scene was the recreation of the famous train, the famous scene that scared audiences. I really enjoyed the updated perspective of the famous iconic scene. Overall, i think it was a great experience to see established directors try out the camera. Its important for both audiences and artists to understand the history of the profession, and i believe this makes you an overall wiser and more established individual within the artistic world.
Out of all the shorts, there were two that really caught my attention. However, I think that the short with the Indian dancer was most intriguing to me because of the auteur's creative use of color. He did something no other director did. He thought outside of the box and colored the film, which gave the piece a very magical and fantastical feel despite its very short running time.
My favorite short was the one that was filmed on the great wall of china. Most of the other shorts bored me to death so this one was a nice mixup. I thought it was pretty cool how it started off slow and then the guy and girl started dancing and jumping around. I also liked when the guy picked up a guitar off the ground and went crazy. This short definitely entertained me the most.
Hello everyone! My name is Carlos Martinez. Now in my personal opinion, I'm not going to lie, the concept of the film was very interesting because the film directors had very little to work with and had the opportunity to work with the Lumière Brother's camera equipment. However, the movie in its entirety was rather dull. The first 10 minutes were very entertaining and I liked how some of the directors reenacted a modern version of old historic clips from the Lumière Brother's time period (ex. the train). During the middle of the film, everything started to blend together in my mind because there were so many directors displaying the short clips they've created and the film itself was getting redundant. There was one that stuck out to me which was the clip of the dancer and how they used color for her dress. The film had its moments, but overall wasn't the best attention grabber for my tastes.
Hey everyone, my name’s Patty. My favorite short was David Lynch’s. It started off outside with cops approaching a dead woman’s body, moved to an indoor scene with aliens torturing a woman in a giant glass vial, and then blazed out (with fire) into a scene with parents awaiting their daughter, and a cop entering with the bad news, that the girl, probably the dead one from the opening scene, wouldn’t be coming home. Throughout, the music and almost rhythmically flickering lighting, heightened this shorts creepiness. It wasn’t one of the happier shorts, but I liked it for its emotional texture. It was dreamy, smoky, and eerie. It was all very surreal and best of all, it had a lot of variety (I felt the other shorts were lacking.) It didn’t just stay in one scene like the short with the girl hitting people with her suitcase or the short of the couple kissing. –Patty Alfaro
My favorite short was Regis Wargnier's. This was the clip that showed a man walking down a promenade lined with trees in a park. The man walking was actually Francois Mitterand, the 21st President of France. I especially like the effect given by the beam of light reflected off of the fountain shining through the central vertical line of the frame from the far background which kept Mitterand's visage obscured until he was very close to the camera at the end of the film. Since you can not see the man's face for about the first two thirds of the film, it holds your attention, waiting to unmask this hidden identity. And when the walking man is anonymous the short has a timeless feeling. Walking through the old park, which I assume is the Luxembourg Gardens but not sure, with the perfect row of trees, in his suit, flanked by the luminous fountain the film exudes the impression that it could have been shot by the Lumieres or ten years from now. -Danielle Furneaux
Hello there, it's Ariel. I really liked the one where the two lovers (french, obviously) walked slowly into center frame with that very famous classical ballad playing in the background, and they're about to kiss, and the girl faints, does it wrong, goes back to the start and repeats. I thought it was just fun for them to make a point of the subtitles of a good action versus a bad one, and the neuroticism of some directors.
I was excitingly anticipating Spike Lee's short when I noticed he was taking part of "the game" and after what seemed like a lengthy wait, I was left bewildered and unsatisfied. I wasn't aware of the reference to the Lumière brothers' Grand Café premier film, Repas de bébé (baby's breakfast), and that Spike was paying tribute to the brothers' film as well as their values and history shooting family mundanities, but still felt a bit let down after leaning. Maybe if the baby would've spoke it'd be a different story. At least David Lynch's contribution did America justice. His short was extraordinary while most others were mediocre, it's insane how this was one continued detailed shot, and interesting how the jumbled sequence of scenes in irregular order is expressing a single story.
One of my favorite shorts in the film was one of the earlier ones that was shown. I do not remember the name of the short nor the name of the director; however, I do remember what happened in the short. It was one shot that continually went from right to left (done by pushing a dolly on a track). As it moved from left to right, you would see different people performing different acts. It included people painting, dancing, and photography. At the end, we watched two men shoot each other and fall into each others arms. I liked this one because I thought it accomplished the most in a limited time frame. I was really looking forward to Spike Lee's short, but came away disappointed. After learning in class on Tuesday that he was paying tribute to the Lumiere brothers, I can understand it much better now.
Hey I'm Pilar Castaneda. I agree with Kelly Chambers; the shot where the Chinese woman and man was interesting. At first it looked like they were kind of dancing in their folkloric costume but then to me it turned out to be a little funny because the Chinese boy started to rock out in his guitar and the girl was just dancing along. I thought it was pretty funny!
I agree with Drew. I liked the continuous dolly one. I thought it was really clever and entertaining, and to me it really embodied that slapstick humor from the silent era. It reminded me of a commercial that used to air (I can't remember what it was for) that just went from one setting to the next to the next without fading in or out, it just kind of slid over. I just think that device makes it really interesting. I also liked the one on the great wall of china purely for the frame composition. I really liked how you could see the whole wall extending on in the left side of the image.
My favorite short was probably the African-esque "prank" with the guy in the crocodile suit. I thought it was funny and I enjoy humorous shorts. I thought it captured everything a Lumiere inspired work would involve. It was real people who were most likely friends and close, in a funny situation. It was short, sweet, charming and to the point. In my opinion it was the most entertaining by far.
My favourite by far was the short film with the little girl trying to weigh herself. The way she reacted when she was continuously pushed aside by the adults was hilarious. Smacking them on the bum with her suitcase, until eventually an adult but her on his shoulders and let her weigh herself with him. She never really achieved her goal though, since she never got to stand and weigh herself on her own. I guess this short film outlines the way children of that time were treated. The whole "children should be seen and not heard" attitude. It was nice to see her stick up for herself! By Jacqueline Clarke.
Last week's film Is great. The favorite part for me is the part by David Lynch. He kept his own style in the short movie which is baroque and mysterious. I like that kind of feeling very much, that put movie to another world. He said in the interview of that movie too, what does film means to him is that film bring him to him dream, to the world all fill of dream. That is a very interesting view about motion picture. By Haonan Wang
I really enjoyed David Lynch's contribution to the project, because he sort of found a way to get around the requirement to have the camera running at all times. To cut from scene to scene he still kept rolling but had the lens closed, which is why there are black frames in between different settings, and I thought that was kind of a clever way to attempt to have a more "modern" cut feel to his short but at the same time paying homage to the difficulties of the earliest form of cinema. The fog also played a big role for me, since it reminded me of a more surrealist form of storytelling than some of the other shorts, like the first one with the little girl or Spike Lee's baby short. Overall, the film was a really interesting experiment, and it was very insightful to be able to hear these great filmmakers' responses to fundamental questions but it did get a bit repetative as it went on. Nadia Cajale
I found interest in Andrei Konchalovsky short film. His particular project was were the Cinématographe was placed on a crane showing an elevated shot of a scenic desert canyon. The camera slowly descends down onto a Quadruped animal that is dead and being feasted on by gnats. I felt the sequence of frames had a modern camera angle which was appealing an pretty prominent. In my opinion the film resembled an establishing shot that could have been used in an old western John Wayne movie.
A few days ago I wrote a post with no success due to posting issues, and one of my arguments was against Spike Lee's film. Initially, I was shocked that Spike's short was so random, and look like it was just Spike filming maybe his child. That all changed when we spoke about it in class today. I finally learned that Spike was recreating a scene from past videos. Im glad that i learned this before i posted my comments. I guess my favorite scene was the recreation of the famous train, the famous scene that scared audiences. I really enjoyed the updated perspective of the famous iconic scene. Overall, i think it was a great experience to see established directors try out the camera. Its important for both audiences and artists to understand the history of the profession, and i believe this makes you an overall wiser and more established individual within the artistic world.
I don't remember the name of it, but I really liked the one where it was one continuous sideways dolly shot of different types of art such as: dancing, painting, photo, and had the two men shooting each other at the end. It was a very simple idea that I thought was executed very well. The dolly had you anticipating what was coming next and wanting to keep watching. There was depth to the shot and the composition of each split second was planned to perfection. I also enjoyed "Which Country Have I Landed" mostly because of the location and the fact that the third wall was broken. Lastly, I enjoyed the one where the little girl kept getting picked up and taken off the weigh machine or the viewing scope and hitting everyone with here suitcase. It was a cute idea and comical. -Jaymes Gardzinski
ReplyDeleteI thought Spike Lee's short was quite amusing. All you see is a baby in a stroller with Spike behind the camera asking him to say "dada". You kind of knew that the baby wasn't going to speak but as I was watching it I started to hope that he would at least say something. The simplicity of it was what I found interesting. Another short that caught my attention was the one of the serpentine dancer. It was the only short that utilized colors. After watching one black and white film after another, seeing some color was definitely refreshing.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite was the one with the little girl and the suitcase. That little girl showed such personality. I also think it highlighted the joy of having your parent stick up for you. I assumed her dad was the one putting her on his shoulders. I also thought it resembled a family movie, similar to that which the Lumiere brothers created. I expected the one about the guy that walks in and out of jail everyday to be a little more interesting...maybe see him walk back in.
ReplyDeleteThe short that sticks out the most in my mind is the one by Zhang Yimou that was shot on the Great Wall of China. When it began with the man and the woman in period costumes, playing an instrument and waving a fan, respectively, I prepared myself for a dull 52 seconds, but then they shook things up! I loved how Yimou entered the frame with the slate. Since the documentary was an homage to the history of film itself I found it delightfully fitting that the director showed within the story that filmmaking has its own story. It was comical to see the transformation of the actors from traditional players to contemporary rockers. Seeing a guy rocking out and a scantily clad woman dancing on the Great Wall was amusing because it combined the traditional with the new. This short was one of the few that made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteA few days ago I wrote a post with no success due to posting issues, and one of my arguments was against Spike Lee's film. Initially, I was shocked that Spike's short was so random, and look like it was just Spike filming maybe his child. That all changed when we spoke about it in class today. I finally learned that Spike was recreating a scene from past videos. Im glad that i learned this before i posted my comments. I guess my favorite scene was the recreation of the famous train, the famous scene that scared audiences. I really enjoyed the updated perspective of the famous iconic scene. Overall, i think it was a great experience to see established directors try out the camera. Its important for both audiences and artists to understand the history of the profession, and i believe this makes you an overall wiser and more established individual within the artistic world.
ReplyDeleteOut of all the shorts, there were two that really caught my attention. However, I think that the short with the Indian dancer was most intriguing to me because of the auteur's creative use of color. He did something no other director did. He thought outside of the box and colored the film, which gave the piece a very magical and fantastical feel despite its very short running time.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite short was the one that was filmed on the great wall of china. Most of the other shorts bored me to death so this one was a nice mixup. I thought it was pretty cool how it started off slow and then the guy and girl started dancing and jumping around. I also liked when the guy picked up a guitar off the ground and went crazy. This short definitely entertained me the most.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! My name is Carlos Martinez. Now in my personal opinion, I'm not going to lie, the concept of the film was very interesting because the film directors had very little to work with and had the opportunity to work with the Lumière Brother's camera equipment. However, the movie in its entirety was rather dull. The first 10 minutes were very entertaining and I liked how some of the directors reenacted a modern version of old historic clips from the Lumière Brother's time period (ex. the train). During the middle of the film, everything started to blend together in my mind because there were so many directors displaying the short clips they've created and the film itself was getting redundant. There was one that stuck out to me which was the clip of the dancer and how they used color for her dress. The film had its moments, but overall wasn't the best attention grabber for my tastes.
ReplyDeleteHey everyone, my name’s Patty. My favorite short was David Lynch’s. It started off outside with cops approaching a dead woman’s body, moved to an indoor scene with aliens torturing a woman in a giant glass vial, and then blazed out (with fire) into a scene with parents awaiting their daughter, and a cop entering with the bad news, that the girl, probably the dead one from the opening scene, wouldn’t be coming home. Throughout, the music and almost rhythmically flickering lighting, heightened this shorts creepiness. It wasn’t one of the happier shorts, but I liked it for its emotional texture. It was dreamy, smoky, and eerie. It was all very surreal and best of all, it had a lot of variety (I felt the other shorts were lacking.) It didn’t just stay in one scene like the short with the girl hitting people with her suitcase or the short of the couple kissing. –Patty Alfaro
ReplyDeleteMy favorite short was Regis Wargnier's. This was the clip that showed a man walking down a promenade lined with trees in a park. The man walking was actually Francois Mitterand, the 21st President of France. I especially like the effect given by the beam of light reflected off of the fountain shining through the central vertical line of the frame from the far background which kept Mitterand's visage obscured until he was very close to the camera at the end of the film. Since you can not see the man's face for about the first two thirds of the film, it holds your attention, waiting to unmask this hidden identity. And when the walking man is anonymous the short has a timeless feeling. Walking through the old park, which I assume is the Luxembourg Gardens but not sure, with the perfect row of trees, in his suit, flanked by the luminous fountain the film exudes the impression that it could have been shot by the Lumieres or ten years from now.
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Hello there, it's Ariel. I really liked the one where the two lovers (french, obviously) walked slowly into center frame with that very famous classical ballad playing in the background, and they're about to kiss, and the girl faints, does it wrong, goes back to the start and repeats. I thought it was just fun for them to make a point of the subtitles of a good action versus a bad one, and the neuroticism of some directors.
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ReplyDeleteI was excitingly anticipating Spike Lee's short when I noticed he was taking part of "the game" and after what seemed like a lengthy wait, I was left bewildered and unsatisfied. I wasn't aware of the reference to the Lumière brothers' Grand Café premier film, Repas de bébé (baby's breakfast), and that Spike was paying tribute to the brothers' film as well as their values and history shooting family mundanities, but still felt a bit let down after leaning. Maybe if the baby would've spoke it'd be a different story. At least David Lynch's contribution did America justice. His short was extraordinary while most others were mediocre, it's insane how this was one continued detailed shot, and interesting how the jumbled sequence of scenes in irregular order is expressing a single story.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite shorts in the film was one of the earlier ones that was shown. I do not remember the name of the short nor the name of the director; however, I do remember what happened in the short. It was one shot that continually went from right to left (done by pushing a dolly on a track). As it moved from left to right, you would see different people performing different acts. It included people painting, dancing, and photography. At the end, we watched two men shoot each other and fall into each others arms. I liked this one because I thought it accomplished the most in a limited time frame. I was really looking forward to Spike Lee's short, but came away disappointed. After learning in class on Tuesday that he was paying tribute to the Lumiere brothers, I can understand it much better now.
ReplyDeleteHey I'm Pilar Castaneda. I agree with Kelly Chambers; the shot where the Chinese woman and man was interesting. At first it looked like they were kind of dancing in their folkloric costume but then to me it turned out to be a little funny because the Chinese boy started to rock out in his guitar and the girl was just dancing along. I thought it was pretty funny!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Drew. I liked the continuous dolly one. I thought it was really clever and entertaining, and to me it really embodied that slapstick humor from the silent era. It reminded me of a commercial that used to air (I can't remember what it was for) that just went from one setting to the next to the next without fading in or out, it just kind of slid over. I just think that device makes it really interesting. I also liked the one on the great wall of china purely for the frame composition. I really liked how you could see the whole wall extending on in the left side of the image.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite short was probably the African-esque "prank" with the guy in the crocodile suit. I thought it was funny and I enjoy humorous shorts. I thought it captured everything a Lumiere inspired work would involve. It was real people who were most likely friends and close, in a funny situation. It was short, sweet, charming and to the point. In my opinion it was the most entertaining by far.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite by far was the short film with the little girl trying to weigh herself. The way she reacted when she was continuously pushed aside by the adults was hilarious. Smacking them on the bum with her suitcase, until eventually an adult but her on his shoulders and let her weigh herself with him. She never really achieved her goal though, since she never got to stand and weigh herself on her own. I guess this short film outlines the way children of that time were treated. The whole "children should be seen and not heard" attitude. It was nice to see her stick up for herself!
ReplyDeleteBy Jacqueline Clarke.
Last week's film Is great. The favorite part for me is the part by David Lynch. He kept his own style in the short movie which is baroque and mysterious. I like that kind of feeling very much, that put movie to another world. He said in the interview of that movie too, what does film means to him is that film bring him to him dream, to the world all fill of dream. That is a very interesting view about motion picture.
ReplyDeleteBy Haonan Wang
I really enjoyed David Lynch's contribution to the project, because he sort of found a way to get around the requirement to have the camera running at all times. To cut from scene to scene he still kept rolling but had the lens closed, which is why there are black frames in between different settings, and I thought that was kind of a clever way to attempt to have a more "modern" cut feel to his short but at the same time paying homage to the difficulties of the earliest form of cinema. The fog also played a big role for me, since it reminded me of a more surrealist form of storytelling than some of the other shorts, like the first one with the little girl or Spike Lee's baby short. Overall, the film was a really interesting experiment, and it was very insightful to be able to hear these great filmmakers' responses to fundamental questions but it did get a bit repetative as it went on. Nadia Cajale
ReplyDeleteI found interest in Andrei Konchalovsky short film. His particular project was were the Cinématographe was placed on a crane showing an elevated shot of a scenic desert canyon. The camera slowly descends down onto a Quadruped animal that is dead and being feasted on by gnats. I felt the sequence of frames had a modern camera angle which was appealing an pretty prominent. In my opinion the film resembled an establishing shot that could have been used in an old western John Wayne movie.
ReplyDeleteA few days ago I wrote a post with no success due to posting issues, and one of my arguments was against Spike Lee's film. Initially, I was shocked that Spike's short was so random, and look like it was just Spike filming maybe his child. That all changed when we spoke about it in class today. I finally learned that Spike was recreating a scene from past videos. Im glad that i learned this before i posted my comments. I guess my favorite scene was the recreation of the famous train, the famous scene that scared audiences. I really enjoyed the updated perspective of the famous iconic scene. Overall, i think it was a great experience to see established directors try out the camera. Its important for both audiences and artists to understand the history of the profession, and i believe this makes you an overall wiser and more established individual within the artistic world.
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