Film Theory
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Ida 2013, Pawel Pawlikowski
Diary of Country Priest, 1951, Robert Bresson
The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928, Carl Dreyer
Max von Sydow Readies for Revenge in “The Virgin Spring”
Key sequence analysis - opening scene of Ida
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How the film presents society to the audience and what messages about society are being conveyed - Selection, organisation and focus
Gender
Vertigo, Hitchcock, 1958
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Afterimages
Feminist film-makers
Ulrike Ottinger - Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia, 1989
Female gaze - Portrait of a Lady of Fire, 2019, Céline Sciamma
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Sound on the film set and in post-production
Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
Breaking the fourth wall
Case study of sound in Blade Runner
See With Your Ears: Spielberg and Sound Design - Nerdwriters
What can music do?
Neil Brand
Realist and anti-realist sound
Use of sound in A Quiet Place, 2018, John Krasinski
Films that revolutionised sound design - Citizen Kane, 1941, Orsen Welles, The Birds, 1963, Hitchcock, Eraserhead, 1977, David Lynch, Nashville, 1975, Robert Altman, Luxo Jr, 1986, Pixar, Ordinary People, 1980, Robert Redford, The Matrix, 1999, Dane Davis and Lost in Translation, 2003, Sofia Coppola
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Looking at favourites from previous BFI Film Festivals, including Little Joe, 2019, Jessica Hauser, Wolf Children, 2013, Mamoru Hosoda and Bullet Boy, 2004, Saul Dibb
A selection of standout films from BFI Film Festival 2020
Exploring Shorts from the festival
Looking at Experimenta - films by artists that revolutionise and reshape our vision of cinema
#GENERATIONNOW - short films exploring what it means to be a young adult in the world today
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Looking at the work of Director Amma Asante
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A brief history of horror movies
A close focus on German Expressionism films
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A brief history of Japanese Horror
Top Japanese Horror films
A close focus on director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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South Korea
Bong Joon-ho, The Host and Mother
Yeon Sang-ho, Train to Busan
Kwang-bin kim, The Closet
Iran
Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow
Sweden
Tomas Alfredo, Let the Right One In
Australia
Marcus Dunstan, The Babadook
Spain
J.A Bayona, The Orphanage
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Ali Abbasi, 39, Iranian
Ari Aster, 33, American
Bi Gan, 30, Chinese
Jayro Bustamante, 43, Guatemalan
Mati Diop, 37, French
Robert Eggers, 36, American
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Frontiers of Dreams and Fears, dir. Mai Masri
Black to Techno, Jenn Nkiru
House of Women, Michelle Williams Gamaker
The Earth is Blue as an Orange, dir. Iryna Tsilky
Immortal, dir. Ksenia Okhapkina
The Cloud in Her Room, dir. Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Air Conditioner, dir. Fradique, Angola
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What is Field Recording?
History of Field Recording
Sound walking
Microphones, portable digital recorders, techniques and hidden sounds
Exploring past/contemporary field recordings
History and introduction to digital audio workstations (DAW)
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Editing our sound walks with digital audio workstations
Audacity
Equalisation, effects and processing sound
Daisies. dir. Vera Chytilová 1966
The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 2012
My Name is Emily, Dir. Evanna Lynch, 2017
Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir, 1975
The Tree of Life, dir. Terrence Malick, 2011
Exploring the cinematography of Christopher Doyle
Digging deep into Wong Kar Wai’s intense visualisation of personal dramas
CONVERGENCE COMMUNITY FILM FESTIVAL at South London Gallery - Saturday 20 Feb 2021
Doug Aitken - FLAGS & DEBRIS
Introduction to Audition
Making emotions visual
