Tag: Post Cinema
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Post-continuity in We Live In Time by John Crowley
We Live In Time is A24’s romance/comedy starring Andrew Garfield as Tobias and Florence Pugh as Almut. Ahead of its UK release in January, I previewed it at BFI’s Film Festival. Spoilers included… It encapsulates post-continuity filmmaking through its structure and plot, rather than editing. For example, throughout the entire structure of the film, there…
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Mad Max Fury Road: Intensified Continuity or Chaos Cinema?
At first glance, Matthias Stork’s theory of Chaos Cinema seems to be rather accurate given the spatial incoherence and manic free-ranging camera movements we see in the action movies of today. It is this frenetic pace employed by movies such as this shoot-out scene in Domino (2005) that in Stork’s words – “…doesn’t seduce you…
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Lights, camera, friction: The Film Vs. Digital Debate
A decade after digital filmmaking made it to mainstream cinema, I arrived on scene. A cinema neophyte and a fresh student of screen studies, I wondered how our relationship with technology and storytelling had evolved over the years. I found compelling arguments for both mediums but neither could outshine the argument for compelling narratives. In…
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Digital Transformation; New Media and Post Cinema
The cinema and television industry went through many transitions during the analogue to digital transformation starting at the end of the 20th century, especially in production, exhibition, and consumption. In Manovich’s work ‘The Language of New Media’ he coins the term “New Media” he discusses it commonly referred to as the internet, DVDs, computer games,…
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