Mia-Myline Medina_Marie Edwards / Marat Sembayev_Week #11

British cinemagraph artist and photographer, Marie Edwards, began her cinemagraph work as an assignment in college. Combinging video and photo elements into one piece, Edwards is able to enhance the mysteriously dream-like tone of her work- pulling inspiration from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series as well as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. I enjoy her use of street lamp lighting in to backlight the subject which dramatizes the scene. Though movement in the cinemagraph does not necessarily aid in the impact of the image overall, it does not take away from it either. The cinemagraph would have been just as successful if it were a photograph but I find that the movement of the smoke plays on the mystery of the scene. I'm hoping to be able to bring the same amount of intensity into my own work for this project.

https://www.comealiveimages.com/come-alive-images-marie-edwards

Kazakhstan based photograher and cinemagraph artist, Marat Sembayev, creates visually dynamic cinemagraphs that are both action filled and female based. Though little is shared about the work that is created, Sembayev expresses that good equipement is not as important as "the idea of what you shoot". Though I only have one example here, many of Sembayev's work seems to show strong and empowered women- shotting guns, standing in front of burning fields, etc.- but also women in more helpless and lonely scenes- smoking by themselves, looking up at empty stairwells, and walking alone with a flashlight. In my own project, I would like to show both my own weakness and strength in juxtaposition with eachother; toggling back and forth between the two.

https://www.comealiveimages.com/come-alive-images-marat-sembayev

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #12

Uno Moralez is called a pixel painter. He creates detailed GIFS that seem to have an 80s video game vibe. He creates animated loops, illustrations and sequential stories. They all consist of pixel exact lines and limited in color. 

https://unomoralez.com

Micael Reynaud is a stop motion animator that also creates animated GIFS. He uses video techniques like slit scanning, time-lapse, and various forms of masking, which gives the GIFS a hypnotic effect. 

https://giphy.com/explore/micael-reynaud

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This video is a little graphic, but a real telling story. “C4 Random Acts – ‘Lawless’ is directed by Ellen Pearson, all photos by Tilly Lawless, and music by Suzanne Kraft. The film is a compilation of a photograph series shot by Lawless, who is a sex worker in Sydney’s decriminalized sex industry. The video intrigues me because of the unique story and the way it is portrayed. I feel that the director accomplishes the attempt to expose societal taboos surrounding sex work and attitudes about love and sex. The way they compile photographs to tell the story felt stronger than a regular video and had a deeper connection because the person who’s telling the story is the one the story is about. Overall I enjoyed how the video was a compilation of photo series that was then narrated to create a video.

https://vimeo.com/180491843

“Do You Like Me Now?” Anatomiae Occultii by Chris Shimojima is a video telling a story using dance movements. I have seen a theme in the videos that I choose including this one, because they do not include the people in the video talking, but rather music playing over it. I enjoy this quality in the work along with how well choreographed and directed this video is.

https://vimeo.com/202096541

Other videos I found interesting

https://vimeo.com/197443255  Doug Aitken’s Underwater Pavilions

https://vimeo.com/195304295 The Future of Cities Oscar Boyson (kinda long, but lots of interesting environmental info and how they captured film for some areas of the film where they never even got to go to)

https://vimeo.com/190347997  Another World – Marta Bevacqua conceptual video

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“Open Water” by Brendon Tyree is a very short, but sweet film. The duration of the film is only a minute and a half with no speaking and only music. I felt like the artist successfully captured the freedom that open water swimming in Scotland brings to the ones familiar with it. Even from somebody that has little knowledge on the subject you can get this since of freedom from the video from the way its shot. The mixture of aerial landscape and close up shots is what attracts me most to the film along with the music in it.

https://vimeo.com/328597644

This film is called “Chad Lawson Waning Moon” directed by Bernardo Marentes. What attracts me to this video is the way it too is shot with no words, but music playing over the video which seems to give off a super calm effect. I enjoy how it’s a compilation of videos to make one and how some videos are slowed down to dramatize certain moments.

https://vimeo.com/327982695

My focus for this week is on Gregory Colbert, a Canadian "filmmaker". The images he shares shows humans connection to nature, in almost a dreamlike quality. He creates a conversation about humans relationship to the environment around them, to the plants and animals. Colbert puts an sepia filter over his films, rendering these points timeless. He stages his photographs in the African plains, using both people and animals he encounters there.













http://www.gifgifachance.com/gifs--cinemagraphs.html
Last is a cinematographer by the name of PETRA ŠVAJGER.Where she originally found her creative energy in fashion designing, she switched to cinematography a lot of her work is vaguely disturbing in a way. These are all dreamlike in a different sense, that they stem from somewhere no quite rooted her. A lotto her work has her own illustrations and focuses on different aspects of mentality.

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #11

Randy Halverson is a photographer that also works with time-lapse. He is known for his time lapse of night skys showing the stars and night sky in great detail. Many of his time-lapse include the shift from day to night. Most of the work is taken in western US. He hosts workshops that teach you to shoot stills and time-lapse at night. Some of these projects are taken over months to get the perfect shots. 

http://dakotalapse.com

Enrique Pacheco is a vidoegrapher. His style and career changed when he moved to Iceland. That is where he started specializing in time-lapse and DSLR cameras. He tends to explore raw landscape of Iceland and shooting natures most volatile subjects. He tries to find distant and unknown environments to explore. 

http://www.enriquepacheco.com/videos/

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https://vimeo.com/70573323
Mirror city timelapse by michael shainblum completely breaks the norm. Usually time-lapses arn't moving and only depict a straightforward scene. Shainblum abstracts his time-lapse by mirroring the footage in a kaleidoscope way.

https://vimeo.com/158235317

Film MEETS Art

Vugat Efendi compares the art of cinema and how it compares to famous paintings. It shows how much cinematographers research and emulate art from before and after the renaissance.