Montage Links

Montage References:
Hitchcock on Montage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoPT9JeYHA

SOVIET MONTAGE

A Dialectical Approach to Filmmaking

Metric: Measured number of frames, regardless of action in shot (mechanical):

example: Scene from Eisenstein's October

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations02.htm

Rythmic: cutting for continuity (aesthetic, narrative)

example: Eisenstein's Odessa Steps Sequence, Battleship Potemkin, 1925

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec

Tonal: taps into the emotional quality of the shots to create a complex emotional landscape

Overtonal/Associational: combination of all of the above, moving towards abstraction to illicit emotional reactions

example: from Pudovkin's Mother, 1926

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations05.htm

Intellectual: when shots combined, viewer forms intellectual meaning

example: Eisenstein, Strike, 1925

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/EditingIllustrations06StrikeBig.htm

Apocalypse Now,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWtc01BlqM

Man With a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8

SURREALIST MONTAGE

Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927

Maria's dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0D4fHieW8o

Moloch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNaaogT8fs

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali,Un Chien Andalou, 1929,

https://vimeo.com/18540575

Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSY0TA-ttMA (watch silent)

Vera Chytilova, Daisies (Sedmikrásky), 1966

https://vimeo.com/63689570

examples: opening credits, 53:30, 60:00, 65:00

ART VIDEO

Tracey Moffatt, OTHER, 2009

Dara Birnbaum, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION WONDER WOMAN, 1978-79

Bill Viola, Anthem, 1983

POP CULTURE

Team America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9Uwhjlog8&feature=youtu.be

Forrest Gump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgnJ8GpsBG8

Ferris Beuler's Day Off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubpRcZNJAnE

Snatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mezD2j-R2Y

Footloose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XGmZ8HDIU

Trainspotting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf_WiEb9Qs

Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMD_EqM61I

Clueless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQPpD4EN00

Homework for Nov. 3, 2015

Below is your homework assignment from next week's visiting artist, Isaac Richard Pool. Please visit his website and check out his work. Your homework is in three parts: 

1. view the video poem
2. write a one page poem in any style based on a place
3. bring a collection of images related to the place

There are more details below, so please read carefully. See you next week! - Jessica

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From Isaac Richard Pool:

This is the video poem I want the students to watch:

http://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/48781187888/gpdf070-anna-vitale-street-view-lyric

I want them to think about a place significant to them and come to class with a poem written in any format, approximately one page, and a group of images related to this place. This place could be something sentimental like a home or a favorite park, but I encourage everyone to think more about the places where they spend the most time additively. Street corners, classrooms, chain restaurants, and stores are all places that receive a lot of attention.

The images should include photographs the students created or inherited, and images cultivated from their local environment. The Internet is a very local environment but no memes allowed. 

I chose this video because it uses appropriated images to oscillate our feelings between voyeuristic surveillance eye and pedestrian immersed in textures of the street. It does a lot with very few tools. I want the students to use this video as a reference to think about how their body is contingent upon the framing of the spaces that surround it at all times and on many registers. There's a lot about hailing here and desire and hopefully they groove with it in their projects. 

One Shot/ Long Take Links

As viewed in Class on 10/27:

Edison Kinetescope FIlms (1894-1896):

• Barber Shop :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXq-1-mEsu8
• Feeding the Pigeons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VVYEX6Whq4
• Seminary Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Hs_7cnxsM

Lumiere Brothers, Exiting A Factory, 1895 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0EkMKfgJI

Lumiere Brothers, L'Arroseur Arrosé, 1895 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPPi1YzkM

Alice Guy Blache, Cabbage Fairy, 1896 (0:51)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbQO6pwuNs

Georges Melies, The Vanishing Lady, 1896 (1:11)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x93QagJU

Georges Melies, After the Ball, 1897 (1:06)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYYdTAuGm34

Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975 (6:09)

http://www.ubu.com/film/rosler_semiotics.html

Adrian Piper, Cornered, 1988 (16:42)

https://vimeo.com/10547710 (unavailable)

Alex Bag, Untitled Fall '95, 1995 (1:16)/ (6:21)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S75oLIYbWc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO63MKw9fu8

Fishli and Weiss, 1987 (29:39)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF1fh7V5ivY

Honda, The Cog, 2003 (2:01)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

Panera, 2013 (3:55)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=01kQH-8Yp3U#t=220

Children of Men, 2005, Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (at 3:35 mark) (3:58)

https://vimeo.com/41218073

Nine Lives, "Diana," 2005. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (14:21) begin at 12:30 in film

DVD

Russian Ark, 2002,  directed by Alexander Sokurov, Final Scene (5:21)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0KRRgzZvHk

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