Watched on BFI Player/Amazon.
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Harmony Korine’s latest project: shot with an infrared camera and run through AI animation. Spaghetti Western music processed with generic SoundCloud electronic musician filters. It’s an interesting trailer: sometimes it looks just as cheap as it undoubtedly is, sometimes it backs into genuinely odd visuals.
Had to grab these three when I noticed them. Watching it on MUBI, and I think everyone with the spare money should have MUBI.
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I really need to clear a day to just watch films.
Comments closedLuminous sea jellies beam over choirs of fish as we travel 4 km deep into the Pacific ocean off Costa Rica to reach the pitch black ‘aphotic’ zone. There, in a digital imaginary ocean, the Duga radar (a Soviet-era missile defense system near Chernobyl) is an undersea ruin far beneath the waves.
16-minute short on MUBI. Constantly surprising: for something underwater, that you would therefore conceive of as slow, there’s an amazing amount of visual energy and invention at play. It switches every ten, twenty or thirty seconds, presenting a new alien tableau. Very good sound work, too: drowned voices shouting out of the deep. Eleven minutes in, the camera pulls all the way back to do “landscape,” as it were, and the effect is stunning. I know I’m going to watch this ten more times.
The director also made the excellent BURIAL.
From https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/martin-scorsese-winning-sight-sounds-best-films-2023-poll-with-killers-flower-moon
I love this simple little shot. Talking, but in two different directions – at cross-purposes, perhaps — not directing any emotion towards the other, in a bedroom with the ambience of a prison cell.
Comments closedA 25-minute film wherein an old telephone pole in Iceland is chopped short and a treehouse is built on top of it, finished and maintained by three young siblings. Fixed POV throughout.
I shot this frame just for the colours:
This is a wonderful little film. Shot over eighteen months, with the director’s own kids (and, I suspect, on or adjacent to their own home), it’s kind of everything. It’s the seasons. It’s kids being weird and shitty. It’s kids working together, often badly. There’s even some dramatic tension in the last half, that actually hooked me – really cleverly done and really effective. And it’s utterly beautiful. I’m so glad I found this film today. I watched it on MUBI.
Clever restructuring of the top of the play and a very clever introduction of the three witches:
