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Collage Film
Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources. The term has also been applied to the physical collaging of materials onto film stock. Surrealist roots The surrealist movement played a critical role in the creation of the collage film form. In 1936, the American artist Joseph Cornell produced one of the earliest collage films with his reassembly of ''East of Borneo'' (1931), combined with pieces of other films, into a new work he titled ''Rose Hobart'' after the leading actress.Rony, Fatimah Tobing. The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike. Camera Obscura. January 2003, Vol. 18 Issue 52 When Salvador Dalí saw the film, he was famously enraged, believing Cornell had stolen the idea from his thoughts. But Adrian Brunel made, twelve years before, ''Crossing the Great Sagrada'' (1924) and Henri Storck conceived, four years earlier, ''Story of the Unknow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Report (film)
''Report'' is a 1967 short (13 minute), avant-garde film by Bruce Conner. It consists of found footage concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Summary A two-part meditation of JFK assassination that also dissects the phenomenon of the news media as a means of processing the event with recordings of said assassination and other imagery created as a method by Bruce Conner to show the effect JFK's death was to the public and the media. Legacy It is listed in the book '' 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die''. See also * List of American films of 1967 * JFK (film) ''JFK'' (released under the subtitle The Story That Won’t Go Away) is a 1991 American epic political thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone. The film examines the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 a ... References External links * ''Report'' on MUBISome Remarks on Bruce Conner and Report-Bright Lights Film Journal {{Bruce Conner 1960s avant-garde and exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectres Of The Spectrum
''Spectres of the Spectrum'' is a 1999 science fiction collage film by American filmmaker Craig Baldwin. The story follows a father and daughter living in post-apocalyptic wasteland as they fight against corporate control of the electromagnetic spectrum. The film mixes found footage with live-action scenes. Plot In the year 2007, a telepathic woman Boo Boo and her father Yogi live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The New Electromagnetic Order rules the world, opposed by the TV Tesla resistance movement. Boo Boo, able to withstand the radioactive atmosphere, must go back in time 50 years and trace TV broadcasts of '' Science in Action'' to find an encoded secret from her grandmother. Meanwhile, Yogi scans the history of the electromagnetic conflict. After decoding the secret message, Boo Boo flies into the Sun to unleash a chain reaction that weaponizes the Sun's energy. Cast * Sean Kilcoyne as Yogi * Caroline Koebel as Boo Boo * Beth Lisick as Boo Boo (voice) Production Bald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Baldwin
Craig Baldwin (born 1952) is an American experimental filmmaker. He uses found footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism. Early life Craig Baldwin was born in Oakland, California. He grew up the youngest child in a middle-class family in Carmichael. During high school, he became interested in Beatnik culture. He went to underground film screenings and started filming with a Super 8 camera. Baldwin attended college at University of California at Davis. There, he took film classes through the theatre department and began collecting films. He was also politically active as a student. Baldwin left UC Davis in the early 1970s and later attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. Career Early activities (1976–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precious Images
''Precious Images'' is a 1986 short film directed by Chuck Workman. It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of movie moments through the history of American film. Some of the clips are organized by genre and set to appropriate music; musicals, for example, are accompanied by the title song from '' Singin' in the Rain''. Films featured range chronologically from '' The Great Train Robbery'' (1903) to ''Rocky IV'' (1985), and range in subject from light comedies to dramas and horror films. Production ''Precious Images'' was commissioned by the Directors Guild for its 50th anniversary.MacDonald, Scott (2005) ''A critical cinema: interviews with independent filmmakers,'' University of California Press, p238-239 Workman had previously produced two documentaries, ''The Director and the Image (1984)'' and ''The Director and the Actor (1984),'' for the Guild. Editing took two or three months to complete. ''Precious Images'' features half-second-long splices from approximate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun '' thee'') when followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Workman
Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His 1986 film '' Precious Images'' won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film; his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards. Workman frequently creates the montages seen on the televised Academy Awards shows, including the in memoriam segment. He is sometimes credited as Carl Workman. He is the father of filmmaker Jeremy Workman. Select filmography * 1986: '' Precious Images'' (2009 National Film Registry inductee) * 1986: '' Stoogemania * 1987: Words' * 1989: 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes' * 1994: 100 Years at the Movies' * 1999: ''The Source'' * 2003: ''A House on a Hill ''A House on a Hill'' is a 2003 American drama film written and directed by Chuck Workman and starring Philip Baker Hall, Laura San Giacomo, Shirley Knight and Henry Rollins. Plot Cast * Philip Baker Hall as Harry Mayfield *Laura S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Davison (film Producer)
Jon Davison (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer. Career Davison worked at New World Pictures in the 1970s. His producing credits include '' Airplane!'' (1980), ''RoboCop'' (1987), '' RoboCop 2'' (1990), ''Starship Troopers'' (1997), and '' The 6th Day'' (2000). Davison and animator Sally CruikshankDixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.'' Carbondale, Illinois Carbondale is a city in Jackson and Williamson Counties, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the ... : Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, p. 209. were married March 17, 1984, and have a daughter, Dinah. Archive The moving image collection of Joe Dante and Jon Davison is held at the Academy Film Archive. The joint collection includes feature films, pre-production elements, and theatrical trailer reels. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie Orgy
''The Movie Orgy'' is a 1968 film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Jon Davison.Erickson, Glenn"The Movie Orgy: Savant Screening Revival Notes" ''DVD Savant''. April 26, 2008. It was an evolving compilation of film clips, commercials, and film trailers, initially assembled by Dante when he was an undergraduate at the Philadelphia College of Art. At its longest, it ran for seven and a half hours and could be considered the analog prelude to the mash-up videos and supercut edits now prevalent on digital platforms like YouTube and Vimeo. Summary The film stands as a simultaneous celebration and campy tweaking of mid-20th century Americana, culling liberally from the B-movie cinema of Dante and Davison's youth (including brief clips from '' The Phantom Planet'' and ''Teenagers from Outer Space''), early TV commercials, newsreel footage of early A-bomb tests, cartoons, westerns, sci-fi, bloopers and war movies as well as clips from children's TV shows its college-age audiences ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dante
Joseph James Dante Jr. (; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably '' Gremlins'' (1984) alongside its sequel, '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990)—often mix 1950s-style B movies with cartoon comedy. Dante's films also include ''Piranha'' (1978), ''The Howling'' (1981), '' Explorers'' (1985), '' Innerspace'' (1987), ''The 'Burbs'' (1989), '' Matinee'' (1993), '' Small Soldiers'' (1998), and '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' (2003). His work for television and cable includes immigration satire ''The Second Civil War'' (1997) and episodes of anthology series '' Masters of Horror'' ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and '' Amazing Stories'', as well as '' Police Squad!'' and '' Hawaii Five-0''. Early life Dante was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Livingston. His father, Joseph James Dante, was a professional golfer, though Dante was more interested in becoming a cartoonist. Career 1960s D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21-87
''21-87'' is a 1963 Canadian abstract montage-collage film created by Arthur Lipsett that lasts 9 minutes and 33 seconds. The short, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is a collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National Film Board (where he was employed as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16 mm footage which he shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, among other locations. Release and reception ''21-87'' premiered on the CBC program ''Explorations'' in 1964. Journalist Howard Junker dismisses ''21-87'' and Lipsett's other film, ''Free Fall'', as repetitious: "the whole idea of wildly flashing stills and phrases wears quickly". Critic N. Roy Clifton is frustrated by the seeming randomness of the images. Critic John Fell suggests the film is evocative of parataxis, like a sentence without a conjunctive word. Influence on George Lucas "21-87" would have a profound influence on d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Very Nice, Very Nice
''Very Nice, Very Nice'' is a Canadian avant-garde collage film made by Arthur Lipsett in 1961, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Plot Thoughts about day-to-day life interpreted through snapshots and sound collages pondering if life is better than it was thirty years ago. Production While working at the National Film Board, Lipsett collected pieces of audio from the waste bins and pieced them together as a hobby. When his friends heard the product of this they suggested that he add images to it. The result was this film. Reception ''Very Nice, Very Nice'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards. Legacy Stanley Kubrick wrote to Lipsett to praise ''Very Nice, Very Nice'', stating that it was "the most imaginative and brilliant uses of the movie screen and soundtrack that I have ever seen." Kubrick asked him to create a trailer for his upcoming ''Dr. Strangelove''. Lipsett declined Kubrick's offer. Pablo Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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