A Film Blog by Sam Blumberg

Neorealistic films focused more on the common people than the lavish acts of the wealthy. These films reflected the people idealisms in the post WW2 era by capturing the poverty and desperation of the time. These films are shot on site and use local people as well as professional actors. Stylistically, these films had loose storylines and more conversational speech. They were shot and edited very simply and purposefully.

The beginning of Twin Peaks was an incredible example of how experimental film still has it's place in modern television. It was a very mesmerizing experience to view, it it seemed like all ideas of time are non-existent and we were forever going to be just stuck there in this beautiful, haunting piece of film. I think if there were words to describe it, there would be no point of showing it in this medium, so I will not try to explain it. The intro to this show gave me a lot of inspiration, however. The use of abstract textures layered with the suspenseful soundtrack showed me how a film can really give off a distinct atmosphere like I've never seen before.

Every story has a major inciting incident to set it off. In one of my favorite movies, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the inciting incident is when Ricky Baker's mom died. This plot point led to Ricky running into "The Bush" and the social services chasing after him and his uncle. Without this happening, the rest of the story wouldn't have taken place, marking this a major inciting incident in the story.

9/4/18 Today I watched Akosua Ado ma Owusu's experimental film titled, "Intermittent Delight." This film, made in 2007, shows a variety of textures, advertisements, and people that are presumably in sweatshops. The patterns and the framing of multiple of them on the screen remind me of my own designs which feature similar graphic elements. The film's score is just weird enough so that, when paired with the otherwise pretty normal visuals, gives the film a haunting and almost anxiety-inducing feel. When watching this film, one transcends into "another world" where consumerism rules all and everything is thrown at you at once. I very much enjoyed watching this and was inspired by the amount of interesting techniques they used like framing multiple videos on the screen at once, using high amounts of contrast (almost meme-like amounts), and portraying two moving, transparent videos on top of each other.