Beyond Wendy's MFA Experience: November 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

Analysis of Mise-En-Scene

For this exercise, I deconstructed segments of the "Salad Story" footage I shot in Israel this past summer to analyze the mise-en-scene--characters, locations, lighting and costumes.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

This was an exercise in Point of View (POV), where for the most part I show Sharona's viewpoint as she engages in the process of making Persian rice. The piece de la resistance is the tadiq, the crusty potato bottom, which is usually reserved for esteemed guests.

Films I'm Watching Spring 2015

Walden: Diaries Notes and Sketches, Reel 1, Dir. Jonas Mekas,1964
Ciao Bella, Dir. Betzy Bromberg, 1978
About Elly, Dir. Asghar Farhadi, 2015
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular, Dir. Stan Brakhage, 1961
Window Water Baby Moving, Dir. Stan Brakhage, 1962
Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Director Chantal Akerman, 1975
Sonic Outlaws, Director Craig Baldwin, 1995
Single Stream, Filmmakers Ernst Karel, Paweł Wojtasik, Toby Lee, 2013
Tarnation, Director Jonathan Caouette, 2003
Man wth a Movie Camera, Director Dziga Vertov, 1929
Boyhood, Director Richard Linklater, 2014
News from Home, Director Chantal Akerman, 1977
Films of Redmond Entwistle, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The Missing Picture, Director Rithy Panh, 2014
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Director Todd Haynes, 1987
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Director Chantal Akerman, 1975
News from Home, Director Chantal Akerman, 1977
Mille Soleils, Director Mati Diop, 2013
Atlantiques, Director Mati Diop, 2010

Films I'm Watching/Video Art I'm Experiencing Fall 2014

Altar of Fire. Director Rabert Gardner, 1976
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Directors Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner. 2013
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Director Alison Klayman, 2012
Nostalgia, Director Hollis Frampton, 1971
The Theory of Everything, Director James Marsh, 2014
Fog of War, Director Errol Morris, 2004
Magnum in Motion: Gilles Peress' Ohio Pastorale-The Red and the Blue," American Montage, Artist Gilles Peress, 2013
Magnum in Motion: Gilles Peress' Ohio Pastorale-A Bridge to Somewhere," American Montage, Artist Gilles Peress, 2013
Los Angeles. Artist Sarah Morris, 2004
An Extract from Chris Marker's Letter from Siberia, Director Chris Marker, 1957
Encore: Tabula Rasa, Artist Isaac Julien, 2010
Conversations in Vermont, Director Robert Frank, 1969
24 Days, Director Alexandre Arcady, 2014
The March, Director Abraham Ravett, 1999
In Memory, Director Abraham Ravett, 1993
Half Sister, Director Abraham Ravett, 1985
Reel/Unreel, Artist Francis Alys, 2011
And Europe will Be Stunned, Artist Yael Bartana, 2007-2011
The Visitors, Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, 2012
The Ties that Bind, Director Su Friedrich, 1985
Sink or Swim, Director Su Friedrich, 1990
Lunch with Fela, Director Abraham Ravett, 2005
Everything's For You, Director Abraham Ravett, 1989
Wander, Wonder, Wilderness, Director Paul Turano, 2014
The Trip to Italy, Director Michael Winterbottom, 2014
The Matrix, Directors Andy Wachowski and Lana Waschowski, 1999
Zero Motivation, Director, Talya Lavie, 2014
The Lunchbox, Director Ritesh Batra, 2013
The Unwelcoming, Director Robby Elmaliah, 2014
Rohmer in Paris, Director Richard Misek, 2013
Radical Evil, Director Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2013
Famous Nathan, Director Lloyd Handwerker, 2014
Divine Intervention, Director Elia Suleiman, 2002
Sherman's March, Director Ross McElwee, 1986

Films I'm Watching Spring 2014

The Plow that Broke the Plains, Director Pare Lorentz, 1937
Stories We Tell, Director Sarah Polley, 2012
Pierrot le Fou, Director Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
The Railway Man, Director Jonathan Teplitzky, 2014
No Man's Language, Director Dana Levy, 2008
Women Without Men, Directors Shoja Azari and Shrin Neshat, 2010
Kidon, Director Emmanuel Naccache, 2014
Hava Nagila (The Movie), Director Roberta Grossman, 2012
Before the Revolution, Director Dan Shadur, 2013
The Station Agent, Director Thomas McCarthy, 2003
Twenty Feet From Stardom, Director Morgan Neville, 2013
The Gatekeepers, Director Dror Moreh, 2012
Forgotten Silver, Directors Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, 1995
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Director Stacy Keach, 1976
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Director Wes Anderson, 2014
Intimate Stranger, Director Alan Berliner,1991
Nobody's Business, Director Alan Berliner, 1996
The Sweetest Sound, Director Alan Berliner, 2001
Amelie, Director Jean Pierre Jeunet, 2001
Captain Phillips, Director Paul Greengrass, 2013
Dallas Buyers Club, Director Jean-Marc Vallee, 2013
12 Years a Slave, Director Steve McQueen, 2013
The Flat, Director Arnon Goldfinger, 2012
Control Room, Director Jehane Noujaim, 2004

Bibliography Fall 2013

Barbash, Ilisa, and Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing About ART.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction.
Edgar-Hunt, Robert, John Marland and Steven Rawle. The Language of Film.
Gerst, Robert, Make Film History: Rewrite, Reshoot, and Recut the World’s Greatest Films.
Hacker, Diana, A Writer’s Reference.
Joselit, David, After Art
Kaplan, E. Ann, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature.
Mercado, Gustavo. The Filmmaker’s Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition.
Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: Movies, Media and Beyond.
Sarkar, Bhaskar and Janet Walker, eds., Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering.
Walker, Janet. Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust.
Williamson, Judith. Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising.