“Can I talk to you? I won’t keep you long. I have to go somewhere and I don’t think I can come back. But I just wanted you to know. Getting to be around you and Benicio was the best thing that ever happened to me.” – Driver, Drive (2011) Filmmakers manipulate and encode elements […]
As part of my studio On The Frame, every two weeks I’ve decided to upload five frames from a film I’ve watched recently. This week I’ve chosen The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick. After I watched this film on Saturday for the first time in a long while, it occurred to me how peculiar […]
“Certain great movements are like a director’s signature, which characterise the whole of a film, or even the whole of an oeuvre, but resonate with the relative movement of a particular signed imaged, or a particular detail in the image.” – Gilles Deleuze The idea of containing a vision is materialised through the frame. […]
After viewing L’Avventura (1960) and In the Mood for Love (2000), we were tasked with exploring elements of motion, movement and the rules of continuity. Sketching and drafting some ideas, I was drawn to using lighting and the elements that it can concurrently alter. While I was limited to the inside of Building 9 due […]
As part of my studio On The Frame, every two weeks I’ve decided to upload five frames from a film I’ve watched recently. This week I’ve chosen It Follows (2014), directed by David Robert Mitchell. Being in the thriller/horror genre, I was quite surprised at this suburban tale as it indulged on perfectly planned stills […]
“It is a restless moment. She has kept her head lowered… to give him a chance to come closer. But he could not, for lack of courage. She turns and walks away.” – In The Mood For Love (2000) Let’s get one thing straight and quickly; I have an infinite admiration for Wong Kar-wai. The […]
A handy video to wrap you head around our third reading from Susan Sontag. Good questions include what is in the frame? Why is it in the frame? What is the frame trying to do? What is the frame ignoring? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2McLPrP5U
“Temportation, in its emphasis and mutable timespace… cinema carries toward a new dialectical crisis. For in its mix of action and virtuality, of both inhabited space and (in a profound double sense) occupied time, it grows clear that the… digital interface does not so much synthesis as elide the ground of durée and of consciousness […]
Due to circumstances out of my control, I had to miss the second class of week one, but this wasn’t too awful. With clear communication and instruction, I went out on my own on Friday to The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to perform my own gallery ramble. Frequently visiting the gallery in my own […]
“Framing is a position of thinking.” – Daniel Frampton, Filmosophy (2006) Hello, yes, why yes, I’m back on the grind again, but before I dive into the awkward* first sentence of blogging it should be said that I am profoundly motivated by the possibilities of my newest studio. From film to visual art, to anime […]
