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Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:00:10 GMT

Uh huh.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Neodoxy — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:57:44 GMT

I think that he's technically a "minimalist", but I also consider many of the "strict" definitions of what people are as bullshit when the intelligentsia is defining things. If one cannot see the resemblance between Beckett's work and surrealism then one is "doing it wrong"

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:50:03 GMT

Indeed it is. And I thought Samuel Beckett was a modernist?

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Kelvin Silva — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:49:29 GMT

That surrealist thing with the mouth talking and only focused on the mouth is freaky.....

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:42:50 GMT

Oh and just to give you an idea of how far I've progressed...here's a video of mine from 2010.

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Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:26:02 GMT

I see what you're saying. Thanks for the feedback.

By the way, I, once again, MUST recommend Samurai Champloo to you. Seriously. It's like the best anime evar.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Neodoxy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:23:36 GMT

It's not bad, but I feel like without the music it's empty, and with the music I feel like its just sort of a chill music video with random images. I'd either change the style of the music that you have or attempt to do something a little more stylistic and succinct, possible focusing less upon moving images which are changing as opposed to images which show little change, like when you turn on the faucet.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:14:51 GMT

Pretty neat.

But...what do you have to say about my film?

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Neodoxy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:06:43 GMT

I love surrealism. Here's a post about me talking about it.

I tend to define surrealism rather broadly, as anything that is surreal. Some of you know my previous avatars:

Not previous avatars but just some google images I love:

My favorite playwright of all time is Samuel Beckett, who I've heard is technically an "essentialist", whatever the hell that is. I've always considered him a surrealist, but I'll let you decide:

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I also appreciate anime with surrealist elements. I've already reccomended Neon Genesis Evangelion to you Skeptic, so I should just throw that out there again since the last few episodes touch on the surreal or are so allegorical that it constitutes as surrealism. Madoka Magica (another great and moderately bloody anime, do not be fooled by the trailers or the show's appearance) FLCL has the clearest surrealist influence, also fully recommended:

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The anti-war books "Slaughter-house 5" and "The Things They Carried" (the second one highly recommended) also have twinges of surrealism in them.

That's what I have to say about that. You can have your thread back now.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:16:31 GMT

Cameron used to do cool stuff before the blue monkey phase.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Kelvin Silva — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:14:59 GMT

alright...

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

TronCat — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:14:35 GMT

@SkepticalMetal

Yeah, FOX sucks. The only director that has any power over them is James Cameron.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:13:59 GMT

Looking at the final picture - I find that I kind of like the casual shakiness in the way that it came out on YouTube. TronCat mentioned that it reminded him of the cinematographer for Children of Men, and I see what he was talking about, and that is a kind of style I like.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

Kelvin Silva — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:09:36 GMT

youshould use a camera stabilizer..

http://14dollarstabilizer.org/

its kinda shaky.

Re: Bizarre and Contrasted - Short Film

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:07:41 GMT

Wow.

Fox has put out a few good pictures over a few decades, but they do suck.

And that's pretty interesting about Blomkamp. I respect him for steering clear of the beaureucratic mess that is liberal Hollywood.