I'd love to invite you all to my Senior Thesis art exhibition at the Thorp Building in NE Minneapolis during the Art-A-Whirl event this weekend.

I've been working on this non-narrative landscape video piece for the past four months and I will be projecting it through my Kowa, which I also used to film it. Stop by if you have time, there is lots to see besides my work, my colleagues have some incredible art as well.

http://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl/dates

Presuming I can figure out how to color correct--there's a little color shift--and upload to vimeo, is it appropriate to post here?

Equipment, of course, is the GH-2, 17.5 Nokton, shooting with Sedna, available light in my studio.

RBD

http://gizmodo.com/5995436/vertical-perspective-of-hong-kongs-immense-skyscrapers

Lisa Cholodenko (love her episodes on six feet under)
Susanne Bier (Solid stuff always)
Cathryn Bigelow (Point Break is what got me hooked to cinema in the first place)

Keep em coming!

Official website:
http://www.detachment-film.com

Trailer:

Making of:

I hope some more people saw this movie and I am curious to read about different opinions. Anybody knows something more about the gear? Some of it is well visible in "making of".

http://www.hdvideopro.com/display/tv/political-gains.html

“Do you want me to tell the truth? Ai yay yay yay. Okay. I’m trying to work out how to say this most politely, and no offense to – I don’t know him personally – but what a total fucking piece of shit. Let me be blunt. Ah, fuck. I don’t care, I’m sure he’s a wonderful guy and I’m sure he cares so much, but since 97 per cent of the film is not under his control, what the fuck are you talking about cinematography, sorry. I’m sorry. I have to be blunt and I don’t care, you can write it. I think it’s a fucking insult to cinematography."

http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/874483/christopher-doyle-interview-part-2-life-of-pi-oscar-is-an

https://www.facebook.com/NNEaudiovisuales

Im going to shot a documentary to greece about it crisis and paralelism with our old crisis in 1999-2001/2003. Im planing to do it with a matte. My wish is to go and being with basis, in the underground, with people who is fighting and organizing by it self against the desicions that is taked by the goberment. For that, ill take a Nikon D7000, some lenses, a mini boom, a cool tripod and a strong backpack. The perfect gear to travel over all the country, using any kind of transport; and to get in any kind of places and situations. I want to shot and edit there, for that im going to get a good laptop, for editing full hd or hd.

My guess is to ask to PAZOK, ΣΥΡΙΖΑ and independet artists who would like to help us with the language; with lodging, and information. Here is not enough information about Greece, and wath is really happening there. We have the money for getting there, maybe for food but not much by now. the point is to going in july and, well, as you see; we are looking for help. Whatever you aport to the toppic will be very apreciated and welcome. Tank you so much for the space to Vitaly and the amazing forum that it is:)

http://refractionsfilm.wordpress.com

But is it just me, or is -again- an example of our modern addiction to the teal & orange look?! Is it just because I now that I know this look I spot it more often, or is it a real change in the way we light and color our films these days. Skyfall literally is drenched in the duo tones of teal/blue & orange. It's in the lightning, set decoration and costumes. There was hardly a scene with any other dominant color. Maybe some greens in the scotland-scenes and that's about it.

I can't deny the film looks gorgeous but to me that look really is starting to become boring and predictable. I remember a cool blogpost which addressed this problem (http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.nl/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html) in 2010, but so three years later we still have all these blockbusters bathed in blue and orange tones.

I understand the theories behind it, how it creates great contrast, how skin-tones pop etc. but I just don't see the artistic value of making everything look 'the same'. The movie Drive also had these tones in abundance, but at least there it related to the characters and their emotions. In films like Skyfall it just feels boringly plain as a simple 'blockbuster look'.

It's like a weird full-circle thing. We started out filming in black and white, then we went on to color, and after a few decades we decided that blue and orange are the greatest colors ever, so again we now are filming in monochrome/duotone with blue and orange instead of black and white...

Should we start campaigning to save the greens, purples etc. from extinction?

Note: video is NSFW.

Also thought this would be a good topic for people to post theaters like this around the country and world, that show good movies.

I put it in private because if the result is good would like to see if you are admitted to a festival and some do not allow work already exhibited.

The password is: working

PS: I educed the quality to share, the render original render looks better,

As script is a bit difficult especially at the end and possibly left over footage, while seemingly a mixture of drama and road movie conventional. It is a very intimate film, very slow with many long still shots, but in a plastic stunningly beautiful, I love the night shots in it, are a delight to behold.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is the director of it, while cinematography is by Gökhan Tiryaki. It was shot with a Sony F35. Winner of Cannes 2011.

The camera somehow got in an interlaced mode for some of these clips, that or I had some hack settings wrong. I almost threw all these clips out, but I'm glad I didn't. I think it actually adds to the look and feel of the video in a strange way.

As always, I love all feedback!

Edit: they've disabled embedding. It is on this page, and is called "The Star". http://www.bestsemester.com/lafsc/

Music Video made with GH2 and 7D. 0 Budget, just lot of work. Youtube do not make justise to picture quality. Boht cams hold werry well heavy post procesing. Hope you like it, and pleas comment (if you like). GH2 was hacked with Driftwood settings.

http://www.moviegeeksunited.net

A huge database of interviews, cinematographers, screenwriters, directors, composers and so on... you will probably find one that will pleased you ! (click on archives)

Some dedicated discussion like the Kubrick series

Feedback very much appreciated, it is how I learn and improve my craft!

Well, my curiosity comes with the following, the photo has a very delicate and accomplished, at times presents a bokeh that at least do not remember seeing, looks like it has a texture full of holes, in old optics is somewhat distantly by stings like lens, but here seems very natural. The camera used was a CineAlta with Cooke S4 lenses worth a fortune. Remember something similar or some bokeh lens that achieves that?

Thanks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRGR4MugweE&hd=1

And back to my main question:

What do you film?

If, after watching this movie you still don't get it, I can't help you. Thierry fooled the "art world" the same way Lynch has managed to fool all of you Lynch fans.

"Exit Through The Gift Shop" http://www.hulu.com/watch/206459

[my thoughts from the other thread posted below]

"The sooner people realize that David Lynch is a fucking dumbass, no talent, deficit on anything resembling a valid and enriching storytelling aesthetic, the better.

My dog tells more interesting stories.... and he tells them better."

"I've literally fired people off my crew for trying to explain to me why David Lynch is a genius. If you think that he is, you understand nothing about storytelling. Nothing. This isn't about taste, its about someone who is a liar. His films lie. There is no truth in them, nothing to be learned of any value. He lies, and says it's his "vision." He takes a giant pretentious shit in your mind, and calls it art.

If you watch a David Lynch film and don't feel like you've been ass-raped, and your money stolen by a laughing midget in a clown suit, who explains to you that "You don't get it... it's art.", then fuck off. He has no idea what he's doing. No clue.

I used to think he was just fucking with people on purpose, which was very Sex Pistols-esque to me and kind of cool, I now realize he's fucktard who lacks even a tiny shred of talent."

"There's a difference between taste and talent.

For instance Hitchcock is a genius. A true innovator who rewrote the book on filmmaking. His brilliance is undeniable. But I don't personally care for his movies. I don't hate them. They just don't really speak to me. But they are brilliant. I can be objective, I can appreciate his films, even though I don't have any of them on my list of favorite films. Same with Bergman. I respect him and his style, but wouldn't list his movies as an influence, or as my favorite films.

Lynch has nothing worth appreciating in his works. They are top to bottom worthless garbage - an affront to Art. He is the "Mr. Brainwash" of film. Calling Lynch a genius, is an insult. It's like saying Mr. Brainwash's mindless "art" is the equivalent to Banksy's brilliant social commentary.

THAT is why I hate Lynch. He is a pretender, not an artist. Anyone who thinks he is a genius doesn't deserve to work with me... and will never work with me. I'm am dead serious."