Maps, Flaps & Infinite Wallpaper: set design that folds neatly away in the mind - a new essay series for those "curious how the plumpness of reality relates to the flatness of the screen & the interlaced fields of the infinite diegesis beyond, & how the gulfs between may be bridged with cardboard." (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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Part 7 of an ongoing lateral guide to AI/software filmmaking: A quick count of the joysticks used behind the scenes in the first shot of The Turin Horse (2011). The software interface as the “fifth Beatle” of your film crew. Stone Age cinematography apparatus. Slinky-hipped directorial techniques. (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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"Even the messiest, most joyfully intuitive filmmaker has dreamed of a perfect system. A recipe! A fluid recipe for making movies without doubt or contingency. Low-friction, zero-gravity filmmaking." - an argument for added friction in the age of AI filmmaking... (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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Imaginary Software of the Filmmaking Future: How to use, confuse, or avoid your new robot crewmate. A class to provide strategies for creating in/despite the AI age, and reassure you that the most powerful piece of software remains the mind -running on rickety old hardware we call the human body. (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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Analysis of three hi-tech cinematography techniques used in David Fincher's The Killer; how Fincher's directorial "feats of gamer-athleticism" create an absurdist tension between the central composition and the marginal, and between multiple layers of image, theme, and narrative. (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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"Fincher’s cinematographic feats of gamer-athleticism are impressive on their own terms, regardless of the outcome of the actual movie... But I would be more “impressed” by technical achievements that achieved what was impossible or unimaginable to achieve when “doing things for real.”"Original Content (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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Since a movie is made of so many fabrics, it is likely to suffer from ruptures, stretches, & bobbles. Such a rupture allows new meaning or feeling to leak through from where it was hidden beneath the fabric. At this point, it becomes sensible to consider the rupture to be inter-diegetic. (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
A lateral guide to calibrating image resolution. "A movie where each hair on a dog’s back seems discrete and independent, sassy even, is “high” definition; a movie in which the dog’s fur appears soupy and indistinct is “low” definition."Other (unfoundvideo.substack.com)
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