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Introduction: Videographic Essays (Issue 2, 2018). By Allison de Fren, Adam Hart, Christina Petersen, and Maurizio Viano
This is the second “videographic” edition of Film Matters (the first can be accessed at https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2017/03/17/introduction-videographic-essays-issue-1-2017-by-allison-de-fren-adam-charles-hart/). It features four undergraduate audiovisual essays that are each global in scope and varied in their interests. As in the previous edition, we attempted … Continue reading
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Framing Time: Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time Is It There?. By Catrina Sun-Tan
Framing Time: Tsai Ming Liang’s What Time Is It There? (2001) from Catrina Sun-Tan on Vimeo. Framing Time: Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time Is It There? Catrina Sun-Tan, Wellesley College Tsai Ming-liang’s style is not for everyone — the first time … Continue reading
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Gendered Resistance and Composition in the Film Timbuktu. By Alyne Figueiredo Gonçalves
Gendered Resistance and Composition in the Film Timbuktu Alyne Figueiredo Gonçalves, Middlebury College Timbuktu is a gorgeous movie, and when I was investigating the use of composition in it, I naively, almost naturally, started focusing on the shots that were … Continue reading
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Slowness and Slow Cinema. By Spencer Slovic
Slowness and Slow Cinema from Spencer Slovic on Vimeo. Slowness and Slow Cinema Spencer Slovic, Stanford University Writing on “slow cinema” often focuses on two poles of pacing in film: the fast-cutting, intensified continuity of twenty-first-century Hollywood, and the glacial, … Continue reading
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Perpetuating the Witch-Hunt: Animals and Female Power in Film. By Hillia Aho
Perpetuating the Witch-Hunt: Animals and Female Power in Film from Hillia Aho on Vimeo. Perpetuating the Witch-Hunt: Animals and Female Power in Film Hillia Aho, Occidental College I created this video essay as an honors project, to accompany my senior … Continue reading
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Night and Fog (1955). Reviewed by Film Matters Spring 2018 Editorial Board
Night and Fog Feview from Liza Palmer Contributors: Noah Campagna, J. Felix Carlson, Joseph Day, Alexis Dickerson, Lily C. Frame, Sean Froeb, Paige Marsicano, Andrew P. Nielsen, Ashley R. Pickett, J. Javier Ramirez, Ashley R. Spillane, William P. Sullivan, and … Continue reading
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Dangerous Trends: Program Notes for My Film Festival by Ashley R. Spillane
In film, there are many depictions of futuristic, fictional worlds that exist under oppressive corporate, bureaucratic, technological, or philosophical control, otherwise known as dystopias. Although each representation contains different messages, they share many of the same themes and examine how … Continue reading
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My Film Festival by Ashley R. Pickett
Perfect Blue (1998) Black Swan (2010) Split (2017) Sometimes a film’s protagonist and antagonist can be one in the same. I find this idea very interesting so my film festival theme would center around the idea of exploring identity. Each … Continue reading
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The Rendition and Representation of Romantic Realism on the Reel. My Film Festival by Lily C. Frame
Roused by truthfulness to depict reality as it prevails offscreen, directors, although very few, affiliate their films with romantic realism as a way to unveil the gentility of love to their viewers. As a young girl who was nurtured by … Continue reading
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Laugh by Laugh West. My Film Festival by Ryan Wentz
What dictates my perfect film festival? My love for intelligent comedies knows no bounds, spanning decades, language, and style. The three films I chose for my film festival are connected, not by how they present a punchline or construct a … Continue reading
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