Beginning Film Quiz 3

silent surrealist short film

Un Chien Andalou (1929) by spanish director Luis Buñue and artist Salvador Dalí is a _____. The chronology of the film is disjointed, it uses dream logic in the narrative flow.

Georges Melies

is recognized for his innovative use of special effects. He’s credited with inventing time-lapse photography, multiple exposures, stop-trick, and dissolves. Voyage to the Moon and Le Diable Noir are famous creations of his. 

Montage

is a technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced together. This technique is most commonly used to symbolically represent the passing of time.

An example of a Montage

Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. 158 Shots in 7 minutes

Mothlight

is a silent "collage film" produced without the use of a camera. An example of what a montage is.

Surrealism - Manipulation of Reality through Editing

In this film, artist Mika Rottenberg considers a survey of her videos in which women work in factory-like settings to create handmade objects.Throughout her videos Rottenberg draws the viewer’s attention to the architecture of the body and the psychological dimensions of labor and value.

Meshes of the Afternoon

is a 1943 American short experimental film. The film's narrative is circular and repeats several motifs. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality. An example of Surrealism - Manipulation of Reality through Editing

Another example of Surrealism - Manipulation of Reality through Editing

La Jetee (1962) is a black and white French science fiction short film. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.

CNN Concatenated by Omer Fast

Fast edits together pieces of news broadcasters from around September 11th, 2001. He creates work that changes and therefore challenges the media narrative of the time. Illustrate the impact of non-linear editing.

Another example of Non-Linear Editing

Omer Fast discusses Continuity (2012) begins as a straightforward homecoming story set in a conventional domestic interior is interrupted by uneasy repetition and the appearance of ghostly, surreal apparitions from the warzone.

The Loop

This editing technique is used to accentuate moments in time and radically alter our experience of the gesture and the human body. The video moves forward and backward with few frames at a time, disrupting our sense of time and meaning.

An example of the Loop

In this beautifully sublime video, Arnold uses the analog film process, not using digital tools to create the effects add to the depth of the work.

Experimental Film

is filmmaking that could be seen as a counterpoint to the practices of mainstream or commercial Hollywood filmmaking. That said, has become a mainstream genre.

Video Art

is named after videotape. Despite having obvious parallels and relationships, it is not experimental film. Does not rely on the many conventions that define theatrical cinema. May not employ the use of actors, no dialogue, no discernable narrative or plot.

The Surrealists

of the early and mid 20 century pushed the boundaries of reality in search of deeper truths.They often employed absurd imagery and/or objects based on reality, but edited them in strange and shocking ways to depict the rationalities of life.

Man with a movie camera

This film functions so well as an archetype for the movement due to its varied use of cinematic techniques such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, dutch angles, extreme close ups, etc.

Man Ray

is an important figure as someone who embodied the avant garde movement. Everything he did as an painter, an photographer, and a filmmaker was central to early 20th century artwork.

Single-Channel

are much closer to the conventional idea of television. A video is screened, projected or shown in an single image.

Installation Art

involves either an environment, several distinct pieces of video presented separately, or any combination of video where traditional media. Is the most common form of today.