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artfilmfan · 7 months

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This is important. All she did was take a critical look inside the refugee crisis and how badly some countries in Europe are treating them and she got viciously attacked by members of the Polish government who didn't like the unflattering potrayal in her film "The Green Border". Many right wing governments (and sometimes even those not so rightwing) vilify and demonize refugees (particularly those coming from the Middle East) and they need to be held accountable for it.

#agnieszka holland #poland #polska #the green border #european film academy #refugees #female filmmakers #female film directors #women in film

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gregor-samsung · 3 months

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Sibyl (Justine Triet, 2019)

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importantwomensbirthdays · 1 year

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Larisa Shepitko

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Larisa Shepitko was born in 1938 in what is now Bakhmut, Ukraine. Though this director is largely unknown today, she was an iconic figure of 60s and 70s Soviet film. Shepitko was 22 years old and still a student when she directed her first feature film, Heat. Her work was at times controversial, and her short film Beginning of an Unknown Era was censored for its unflattering depiction of the Bolsheviks and not screened for twenty years. Shepitko's film The Ascent, regarded as her masterpiece, told the story of two partisans in Belarus during the Nazi occupation. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival.

Larisa Shepikto died in 1979 at the age of 41.

#film #filmmakers #directors #film history #cinema #soviet union #soviet film #eastern europe #eastern european #women directors #women in film #Youtube

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annoyingthemesong · 2 years

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SUBLIME CINEMA #597 - BEFORE THE RAIN

The late, great Katrin Cartridge is most recognizable from Mike Leigh’s films, but here she appears in this Macedonian gem alongside Croatian actor Rade Šerbedžija, a character actor who seems to pop up in most every kind of film, but for never quite long enough. This is probably his best role. He won at Venice for this, and it was Macedonia’s first film to be nominated for an Oscar.

The film touches on cycles of life, violence and social upheaval, with a looping narrative, set against a stark Macedonian landscape.

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famousblueraincoatmp3 · 8 months

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other people watch yorgos lanthimos films and debate over the context and plot and what it all means i watch them and go "exactly right" and never think about them again because i understood perfectly what he meant by all that

#sam.txt #this is the european experience of watching films by european filmmakers and understanding the social and cultural #context of what they're trying to say. killing of a sacred deer is just an average #mainland european family tuesday dinner #after your sister tries to introduce your family to her new atheist boyfriend who works at the convinience store and smells like tobacco #americans and non europeans: what a weird fucking film #europeans: yeah that happened to me last monday evening

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arthoehin · 2 years

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Oslo, August 31st (2011) dir. Joachim Trier

The Worst Person In The World (2021) dir. Joachim Trier

#film #letterboxd #movies #cinematography #european cinema #filmmaking #european film #joachim trier #oslo #oslo trilogy #the worst person in the world #filmcommunity

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vinicons · 11 months

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St. Sebastian por Charissa Via Flickr: The martyrdom of St. Sebastian (Livio Pavanelli) in "Fabiola," directed by Enrico Guazzoni, 1918. Scanned from Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture.

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angelkarafilli · 1 year

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German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer Wim Wenders,photographed by Catherine Cabrol.Berlin, 1994.

#Wim Wenders #German #filmmaker #director #playwright #author #photographer #Germany #Berlin #1994 #swing #Catherine Cabrol #cinema #european cinema #New German Cinema

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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"...A WORK OF BREATHTAKING, ELEMENTAL WONDER..." -- ALL ABOUT A CHILD & HIS RED BALLOON.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on film stills of the beloved fantasy film/short "The Red Balloon" (1956), written & directed by French documentarian filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (1922-1970).

"The simplicity and emotional clarity of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 "The Red Balloon" have made it one of the most beloved films of all time. The narrative is deceptively airy and pared down: Pascal, a young Parisian boy, retrieves a balloon tied to a lamppost, only to discover that it seems to have a mind and personality of its own. At times the balloon follows him around like a loyal dog, at others like a teasing best friend; the two form an almost inseparable bond, one that only an uncaring world would dare untether.

From this modest premise, however, grows a work of breathtaking, elemental wonder —one that, despite its seemingly effortless naturalism, also required a host of cinematic tricks. It’s easy to imagine a boy and his faithful balloon companion; it’s something else to visually realize such a relationship on-screen. Lamorisse began as a documentarian, which makes this flight of fancy, his greatest success, all the more surprising. Rather than using his camera to straight-forwardly survey an environment and its people, here he had to rely on the persuasions of cinematography, editing, and sound—and some very thin threads—to make his audience believe in magic, that his titular character was a plausible living being, emoting and reacting without the benefit of a voice or even a face. In a sense, The Red Balloon is one of the all-time greatest examples of pure cinema. And as it’s geared toward children, it elegantly serves both as an introduction to the basics of film grammar and, at least for its legions of young American fans through the years, as a peek at a different culture. Call it My First Art Movie."

-- CRITERION COLLECTION (essay by Michael Koresky), April 28, 2008

Source: www.criterion.com/current/posts/655-the-red-balloon.

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haute-lifestyle-com · 1 year

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AFI European Union Film Showcase Announces Full Slate of Foreign Films #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmentzonecom #europeanunion #film #afieu #filmmaking

#janet walker #haute-lifestyle.com #the-entertainment-zone.com #afi #european union #afieu #filmmaking

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picturelibristics · 1 year

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Jordan Haj

#Jordan Haj #jordan haj edit #male beauty #my edit #colorized #singer #actor #filmmaker #celebrity #european #2020s #photoshoot

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gregor-samsung · 10 months

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Sibyl (Justine Triet, 2019)

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talentandskills · 2 years

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Check out pics from Day 2 at the 12th Annual International Film Festival Manhattan NYC on our FB page. #Scandinavian #European night www.facebook.com/talentandskills Feel free to Like, share, tag yourself if you see yourself. PS. Got talent join our FB group Talent & Skills to see #auditions #castingcalls and join our talent database talentandskills.com need talent msg us. We are worldwide. If you live outside of the USA, join an FB near your country. E.g. Talent & Skills - United Kingdom Talent & Skills - Philippines Talent & Skills - Germany etc... Pic credit: #GheraldAlaman #IFFMNYC2022 #Filmmaker #filmmakers #filmdirector #filmproducer #filmmaking #acting #actors #actor #actress #filmfestival #shortfilm #shortfilms #FeatureFilm #Germany #Portugal #Sweden https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj78i3eO5sT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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creatingblackcharacters · 5 days

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“The Same Place as the Music” Lighting & Color

“Where is the light coming from?” “The same place as the music.” Andrew Lesnie, Cinematographer of LOTR

How & Why It's A Problem

If I had to summarize the frustration I have with this topic in one image, I'd use JeCorey Holder's (queer Black creative!) meme:

Now here's the thing. I'm not saying you have to be a master at lighting. I'm surely not. Hell, I still play around with lighting in my art in ways that aren’t the ‘most realistic’. You can’t ask me the technical explanations behind ‘color theory’ or 'contrast' without me doing some more reading. However… I don’t think anyone needs an art degree to understand this point:

We should be able to SEE your brown skinned Black characters!

I brought this up in my lessons about skin tones and blushing, and it applies with lighting as well. If all of your other characters have focused light and shadows, so should your Black characters.

However, this does NOT mean making them lighter-skinned!!!!

It's not funny nor logical at all to suggest that they somehow can't be seen like your other characters when you’re the one creating the piece. It's like a classic fifth-grade racist joke, “You blend in at night”. Har-de-har.

I was once rudely told to my face (well in the DMs) that a Black character that was completely Europeanized looked like that “because of the [sepia] lighting”. So I'm going to give you all, gracious readers, an example to show that that's not true.

This is Ana Flávia, Afro-Brazilian model! Gaze upon her beauty! Notice how in both of these filters, Ana did not, in fact, turn into a white woman! Because, my friends, that is not how that works! At all!

Here are some other examples of Black people in non-color lighting:

None of these people vanished from the frame just because there was no color. They didn't have to paint on lighter makeup to be captured by the camera. What do they all have in common (in this example)?

Lighting!

Now let’s discuss different ways to think about and potentially try instead!

What I want you all to keep in mind, is that the art you’re painting:

And I know that's silly right, like yeah no shit Ice, we knew that. BUT my point here is don’t be afraid to study photography, theatre, and staging for ideas. They actively work with light! It’s why I share so many images of models; it’s purposeful, focused staging of light with many of these compositions!

Brown-skinned Black people- brown-skinned people in general- GLOW in the light! Our skin reflects environmental light! There’s so much opportunity to play with that, and you can see different examples in those mediums.

Here are a couple articles of lighting in film focused on Black actors.

When lighting a person with dark complexion, the answer is not LIGHTENING THE SKIN, it’s understanding how light reflects off of dark skin.” -Nilah Magruder

Nilah Magruder (Black creator!) has an ENTIRE, thorough and wonderful essay on the topic, far better than I could give! She incorporates the use of cameras, lighting, painting, and more- so rather than be redundant here, I'm going to spotlight (ha see what I did there. It's okay, I know I'm funny) her and her explanation.

Incorporating Blackness in Color/Colorful Lighting

@dsm7 has an excellent and short visual explanation of how picking certain colors will lead to washing out or whitewashing Black characters, and how certain lighting and backgrounds (think the black and white photos on brighter backgrounds) will change the way their skin tone looks.

@nicosbighead has one of my favorite images on here, that shows how many different colors can still be used to convey the image of Blackness. Notice how all those pinks still worked?

@gaksdesigns has a beautiful picture here that I feel utilizes the light in a very minimal yet effective way to show highlights even on a palette that's fully brown.

This article approaches from a lighting perspective via filmmaking, but essentially Sade Ndya suggests instead of increasing the amount of light, change the color/lens of the light based on your character’s skin, as well as for the circumstances of the scene. They'll remain vibrant that way, and you’ll still capture what you need.

I know one way I do this on CSP (I think I’ve mentioned this but I can’t remember) is to use the Add Glow tool with the same or a similar shade of the character’s brown skin tone as a highlight under natural light, or maybe use different colors or filters depending on the sort of light on their skin at the time.

Here’s a reddit about it too, just because I know y’all value Reddit on here, and someone else discussed the topic that both Nilah and Sade discussed.

Is It Intentional?

There are going to be times where you intend for the light to be minimal. Maybe it’s a style choice. That should still show purposeful composition. Here’s an interview with famed Black director Ava Duvernay discussing the intentional darkness on Black actors in the prison scene in the movie Selma. To show that they're both trapped in prison AND that Martin is temporarily low on resolve- it's a part of the story that's being told.

I'm always talking about this: there is a difference between intention (and following through), and neglecting to think about it at all. And neglect isn't what we want, because often we can tell visually when it is- when an artist simply did not think to do it for one versus the rest.

Sidenote, on Youtube in the suggestions after Ava's interview, are also plenty of videos discussing lighting for dark-skin as well- why not take the chance to look?

Conclusion

We do not lack for light! We aren’t flat and lightless when you see us in life. It's actually a pretty awesome part of being brown-skinned. If you’re giving proper, flattering lighting to everyone else, give it to us as well. Study and experiment with ways to highlight brown skin.

You already know what I’m going to say. It’s going to take practice, same as anything else, because it’s the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!

#creatingblackcharacters #character design #black characters #black art #black character design #black artists

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arthoehin · 2 years

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Barbara Steel // Black Sunday (1960)

#film #letterboxd #movies #filmcommunity #filmmaking #european film #european cinema #mario bava #barbara steele

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hotvintagepoll · 2 months

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Milena Dravić (Horoskop, Kros Contri, Devojka)—She's obviously not a Hollywood star. But she's absolutely THE biggest star from Serbia/Yugoslavia and one of the most stunning faces of European cinema. She was obviously the hottest in her film W.R. - Misterije organizma (just google it) but that's from 1971 so I guess that we can't count. But listen! She was stunning even in her earlier films. Her charisma was unparalleled. She's mostly known for Yugoslav Black Wave films (including Puriša' Djordjevič movies) but she starred in basically everything. I wish more people would remember her and appreciate her because she was truly the 60' icon.

Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel or the Time of Return)—delphine seyrig was a magnetically compelling and radiant lebanese-born french actress, director, and activist, known for appearing in arthouse classics like alain resnais' enigmatic last year at marienbad and collaborating with avant-garde and feminist filmmakers

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Delphine Seyrig propaganda:

Obviously she is very hot and talented, but she was also a filmmaker in her own right, making documentaries about the women's rights movement in France in the 1970s and choosing projects for their feminist subjects (Jeanne Dielmann for example).

MILF. Who said that

#delphine seyrig #milena dravić#hotvintagepoll #ladies 1 #fuck that old woman

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