This is the start of an ongoing series, in which I’ll examine two long-running interests of mine: 1) the concept of the art movement (and related issues like “scenes” and “the zeitgeist”), and 2) how the culture-at-large is not all that homogeneous, but rather braided together from numerous different subcultures, each following their own individual [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dziga Vertov’
Looking at Movements, part 1: The Post-Punk Revival
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexander Rodchenko, Bloc Party, Britpop, Carlos Dengler, Constructivism, Danielson, Dziga Vertov, El Lissitzky, Floria Sigismondi, Franz Ferdinand, Gang of Four, Glenn Branca, Ian Curtis, Interpol, Jonas Odell, Josef K, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Lilya Brik, Mark Burgess, Minimalism, New Order, New Wave, Orange Juice, Paul Banks, Post-Punk Revival, Roman Coppola, Suede, Television, The Chameleons, The Decemberists, The Fire Engines, The Killers, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Ramones, The Strokes, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Uwe Flade, Wes Anderson on September 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, RenĂ© Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]