Studies

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Delicatessen

Darius Khondji pushes and pulls 35mm film beyond its limits and establishes himself as a world renowned cinematographer…

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Delicatessen

Darius Khondji pushes and pulls 35mm film beyond its limits and establishes himself as a world renowned cinematographer…

Our Lady of the Nile

Thierry Arbogast Invokes a fleeting theme amongst retrospect and allegory in an episodic structure. Composition, foreshadowing…

The Horseman on the Roof

In 1996, Thierry Arbogast was trusted to shoot the most expensive film ever to be made in France and won…

Leon: The Professional

Verisimilitude, lens choice, lighting, continuity, visual themes, precise editing, and the story-arc of a scene.

Aga

Authenticity, compassion, shooting on 35mm film, shooting in anamorphic, cinema language, and shot design.

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A contemporary look at a dark aesthetic that Bradford Young has built a career on. The photography swims with the narrative…

I Am Not Your Negro

A directors conviction, taking responsibility, archival footage, atmospheric b-roll, poetic sensibilities, James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson

Dances With Wolves

Dances With Wolves is a longtime favorite I’ve been eager to re-watch after reading The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.

RKO 281

RKO 281 is a delightful account behind the making of Citizen Kane. I look at how it stands up against Fincher’s Mank and Welles…

Enter The Dragon

Some history around Bruce Lee films, his philosophy, shooting Anamorphic in China, changing the films name, and more.

Stalker

The poetry of a long tracking shot and a short brief on Andrei Tarkovsky

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction was shot by Yorick Le Saux and Directed by Olivier Assayas. A “non-visual” film with soft natural lighting, super 16mm and…

Something in the Air

The cinema language in Olivier Assayas Something in the Air, poetry, dream like atmosphere, David Gordon Green’s George Washington

Curations

GO BEYOND THE FILMS, FOLLOW THE THEMATIC TRAILS, AND CONNECT THE DOTS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHERS, WRITERS, PAINTERS, HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND MORE.

Case Studies

Three examples, serving a director's vision

A short demonstration on how camera choice factors in to the Director’s vision coming to life

Three, low/no budget color grades

Color grading films with limited resources—Film, digital, shorts, and features

Lists

SXSW 2021 Favorite Films

My favorite SXSW 2021 films, Including We Are As Gods, The Box, Gaia, and The Drovers Wife

Sundance 2021 Films

My favorite 2021 Sundance films including Coda, Land, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Flee

Studies

Featured

Delicatessen

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Films

Delicatessen

Our Lady of the Nile

The Horseman on the Roof

Leon: The Professional

Aga

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

I Am Not Your Negro

Dances With Wolves

RKO 281

Enter The Dragon

Stalker

Non-Fiction

Something in the Air

Curations

GO BEYOND THE FILMS, FOLLOW THE THEMATIC TRAILS, AND CONNECT THE DOTS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHERS, WRITERS, PAINTERS, HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND MORE.

The Cinematographers Dark Canvas

Native American culture in film and more

Child Prodigies and Renaissance Men

Understanding racial division

Bruce Lee's Philosophical Movies

A five course mind meal, list of independent films

Surrealism, poetry of a long tracking shot

Action of stillness, non-visual film, purism

Cinema Language, House of Leaves

Case Studies

Three examples, serving a director's vision

Three, low/no budget color grades

Lists

SXSW 2021 Favorite Films

Sundance 2021 Films

Photography

A photographic study of Latino culture

Photographic roots in San Francisco

Anti-Aesthetics