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Seasons Of The Year
''Seasons of the Year'' ( hy, Տարվա եղանակները, Tarva yeghanaknery; ), also called ''The Seasons'' or ''Four Seasons'', is a 1975 Soviet–Armenian short documentary film, directed and written by Artavazd Peleshyan. It was his second and last collaboration with cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov, after '' Autumn Pastoral'' (1971). Production ''Seasons of the Year'' was filmed in black-and-white on 35 mm film in the Armenian SSR. It was Peleshyan's first film not using archive footage. Synopsis The film depicts the struggles of an isolated Armenian farming community against the elements. Armenian folk music is mixed with Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons''. We see the villagers raising sheep and cattle, rolling haystacks down a hillside, dealing with rain and storms, celebrating a wedding, and sliding down a snowy hill while carrying sheep. Release ''Seasons of the Year'' was released in 1975. Decades later it became critically admired in the West, showing at the 40th Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artavazd Peleshyan
Artavazd Peleshyan ( hy, Արտավազդ (Արթուր) Փելեշյան, Artavazd (Art’ur) P’eleshyan; also ''Pelechian, Peleshian''; born February 22, 1938) is an Armenian director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist. He is renowned for developing a style of cinematographic perspective known as distance montage, combining perception of depth with oncoming entities, such as running packs of antelope or hordes of humans. Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov has referred to Peleshyan as "one of the few authentic geniuses in the world of cinema". Peleshyan was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1979, and Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995. His films have been described as being on the border between a documentary and a feature film, somewhat reminiscent of the work of such avant-garde filmmakers as Bruce Conner, rather than of conventional documentaries. However, it has been noted that his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and programatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form into a widely accepted and followed idiom, which was paramount in the development of Johann Sebastian Bach's instrumental music. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as '' the Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the '' Ospedale della Pietà'', a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi had worked as a Catholic pries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight & Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal ''Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt For Svanetia
''Salt for Svanetia'' ( ka, მარილი სვანეთს ''marili svanets''; russian: Соль Сванетии, Sol' Svanetii) is a 1930 Soviet-Georgian silent documentary film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. As one of the earliest ethnographic films, it documents the life of the Svan people in the isolated mountain village of Ushguli in Svanetia, in the northwestern part of the Georgian Soviet Republic. Synopsis Most of ''Salt for Svanetia'' describes and explores the daily life of the Svan people, who are living isolated from civilisation in a harsh natural environment in the mountainous region of Svanetia. The film starts with the Lenin quotation "Even now there are far reaches of the Soviet Union where the patriarchal way of life persists along with remnants of the clan system." Svanetia and the mountain village of Ushguli are then located on two slowly dissolving maps of the region and are described as "cut off from civilization by mountains and glaciers". Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Christie (film Scholar)
Ian Christie (born 1945) is a British film scholar. He has written several books including studies of the works of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema. He is a regular contributor to ''Sight & Sound'' magazine and a frequent broadcaster. Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. Selected bibliography * ''The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design'' (Wallflower, 2009) * ''A Matter of Life and Death'' (British Film Institute, BFI, 2000) * ''Gilliam on Gilliam'' (Faber, 1999) [ed.] * ''Scorsese on Scorsese'' (Faber and Faber, 1996 - revised edition) [ed. with David M. Thompson, David Thompson], 4th edition due in 2010. * ''The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World'' (BBC/BFI, 1994) * ''Arrows of Desire: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger'' (Faber and Faber, 1994 – revised edition) Audio commentaries *''A Canterbury Tale'' *''The Edge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verena Paravel
Verena of Zurzach, mostly just called ''Saint Verena'' (c. 260 – c. 320) is an early Christian consecrated virgin and hermit. She is especially venerated in Switzerland, where her cult is attested in Bad Zurzach, the reported place of her burial, from at least the 5th century. She is recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church as well as in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Her feast is on 1 September. Legend The oldest tradition of the life of Verena is found in the so-called ''Vita prior'' by Hatto, the abbot of Reichenau (and later bishop of Mainz), written in c. 888. The younger ''Vita posterior'' was most likely written by a monk in Zurzach in the 11th century, the oldest extant copy dating to the 12th century. According to Hatto's account, Verena was born in Thebes as the daughter of a notable Christian family. She was educated by a bishop named Chaeremon (''Vita prior'', ch. 3). A bishop Chaeremon of Nilopolis is mentioned b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frame (cinema)
In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many ''still images'' which compose the complete ''moving picture''. The term is derived from the historical development of film stock, in which the sequentially recorded single images look like a framed picture when examined individually. The term may also be used more generally as a noun or verb to refer to the edges of the image as seen in a camera viewfinder or projected on a screen. Thus, the camera operator can be said to keep a car in frame by panning with it as it speeds past. Overview When the moving picture is displayed, each frame is flashed on a screen for a short time (nowadays, usually 1/24, 1/25 or 1/30 of a second) and then immediately replaced by the next one. Persistence of vision blends the frames together, producing the illusion of a moving image. The frame is also sometimes used as a unit of time, so that a momentary event might be said to last six frames, the actual dura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujică (born 1951 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian screenwriter and director. Life and work Ujicǎ studied literature in Timișoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together with Harun Farocki, he created ''Videograms of a Revolution'', a film which has become a standard work in Europe when referring to relationships between political power and the media and the end of the Cold War, and which was listed by the magazine ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' as one of the top 10 subversive films of all time. His next work, ''Out of the Present'', told the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov who spent 10 months on board MIR, while back on Earth, the Soviet Union collapsed. The film has been compared to classics such as ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' and ''Solaris'' and is considered one of the non-fiction cult films of the 1990s. His 2005 project, ''Unknown Quantity'', creates a fictional conversation between Paul Virilio and Svetl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haystack
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs. Pigs can eat hay, but do not digest it as efficiently as herbivores do. Hay can be used as animal fodder when or where there is not enough pasture or rangeland on which to graze an animal, when grazing is not feasible due to weather (such as during the winter), or when lush pasture by itself would be too rich for the health of the animal. It is also fed when an animal is unable to access pasture—for example, when the animal is being kept in a stable or barn. Composition Commonly used plants for hay include mixtures of grasses such as ryegrass (''Lolium'' species), timothy, brome, fescue, Bermuda grass, orchard grass, and other species, depending on region. Hay may also include legumes, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tickets. Visitors to the festival have increased from 65,000 in 2000 to 285,000 in 2018. The festival is an independent, international meeting place for audiences and professionals to see a diverse (in form, content, and cultural background) program of high-quality documentaries. IDFA selects creative and accessible documentaries, which offer new insights into society. In its mission statement, IDFA says it ‘strives to screen films with urgent social themes that reflect the spirit of the time in which they are made’. The festival was initially held at the Leidseplein area in the center of Amsterdam. It has since spread to a number of other locations, including Tuschinski Cinema and EYE Filmmuseum. Apart from its international film progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
68th Venice International Film Festival
The 68th annual Venice International Film Festival was held in Venice, Italy between 31 August and 10 September 2011. American film director Darren Aronofsky was announced as the Head of the Jury. American actor and film director Al Pacino was presented with the Glory to the Film-maker award on 4 September, prior to the premiere of his upcoming film '' Wilde Salomé''. Marco Bellocchio was awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in September. The festival opened with the American film ''The Ides of March'', directed by George Clooney, and closed with ''Damsels in Distress'' by Whit Stillman. Juries The international juries of the 68th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main competition (Venezia 68) * Darren Aronofsky, American director, jury president * Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Finnish visual artist and filmmaker * David Byrne, British musician * Todd Haynes, American director * Mario Martone, Italian director * Alba Rohrwacher, Italian actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40th Berlin International Film Festival
The 40th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 February 1990. The festival opened with ''Steel Magnolias'' by Herbert Ross, which was shown out of competition. The Golden Bear was awarded ''ex aequo'' to the American film ''Music Box'' directed by Costa-Gavras and Czechoslovak film '' Skřivánci na niti'' directed by Jiří Menzel. The retrospective of this edition included two programs: ''The Year 1945'', dedicated to international productions released in 1945, and ''40 Years Berlinale'', dedicated to some of the most significant films presented during the past editions of the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Michael Ballhaus, director of photography (West Germany) - Jury President * Margaret Ménégoz, producer - Jury Co-President (France) * Vadim Abdrashitov, director (Soviet Union) * Suzana Amaral, director and screenwriter (Brazil) * Steven Bach, writer and producer (United States) * Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
