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Absurdist film school | Trudging through wastelands of ignorance towards a Cinema of Doubt via Béla Tarr, the Kuchars, Maddin and Deren | Subscribe for weekly micro-essays on the esoterics of filmmaking: https://www.unfound.video
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🎥 In autumn 2023, over 12 weeks, I posted 37 micro-essays on the life, death, architecture, respiratory system, materiality & otherworldliness of an appropriately-pungent cinematographic image.

Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go.

Reposts appreciated!
◡◶▿ Rotting the Image: 37 micro-essays on cinematography
🗂️ A hyperlinked guide to creating the odour of your movie's look.
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"Whatever the tale of this sort of movie, the hero’s true plight is that his routine has been printed to film.

He has become the plaything of a filmmaker who is fascinated by routine or iteration. (Perhaps the filmmaker is sick of her day job.)"

#GroundhogDay #EnysMen #SourceCode
◡◶▿ TIME01 | Snowglobe time
🔮 Your characters don't know you're on a cig break nor how long is reasonable to take. Plus: Radu Jude x Adrian Martin; memories overwritten. New Systems of Time Week 1
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Seems I finally found a László Krasznahorkai joke that hits.
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TiL the bloke who wrote the beautiful song at the start of The Sweet East (the people's One Battle After Another) played Billy Goat in OBAA.

Knew there had to be a connection...
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Chuffed for László Krasznahorkai winning the Nobel. Might mark it by re-reading one of his sentences over the weekend.
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This week, we look at how:

🌏 Each movie is its own self-contained world with its own physical laws.

🔮 Like a little snowglobe.

⌚ There are many ways the filmmaker can adjust the event-substance of movie-time.

🦫 Films that luxuriate in this snowglobeness of time are rare... but repetitive.
◡◶▿ TIME01 | Snowglobe time
🔮 Your characters don't know you're on a cig break nor how long is reasonable to take. Plus: Radu Jude x Adrian Martin; memories overwritten. New Systems of Time Week 1
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Halloween costumes are gonna be fun this year.
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For all the lofty OBAA discourse, all that nine out of ten punters have taken home with them is "semen demon."
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Reached that point of the afternoon where I know I've Ctrl-C'd something but I can't remember what

and I must discipline myself not to Ctrl-C anything else until I work my way back to wherever I'm meant to Ctrl-V this thing.
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In memory of Tilly Norwood 🤖 🤪 ☠️ ⚰️ 🧟
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"A popular sprite would probably need a talent agent of some kind to ‘prompt’ it through its career choices, promotional appearances, and ‘off-screen antics.’

It is unlikely such an agent would be willing to ‘hand over the keys’ at the start of a shoot."
◡◶▿ SOFT11 | Synthetic actors
🎭 Who needs the Stanislavski Method when you can imprison your actor in an infinite prequel? | Imaginary Software of the Filmmaking Future Week 11
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"The rate at which the snowflakes fall depends on the materials the filmmaker has used.

And the vigour with which she shakes her little pet world."
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This week, we look at how:

🌏 Each movie is its own self-contained world with its own physical laws.

🔮 Like a little snowglobe.

⌚ There are many ways the filmmaker can adjust the event-substance of movie-time.

🦫 Films that luxuriate in this snowglobeness of time are rare... but repetitive.
◡◶▿ TIME01 | Snowglobe time
🔮 Your characters don't know you're on a cig break nor how long is reasonable to take. Plus: Radu Jude x Adrian Martin; memories overwritten. New Systems of Time Week 1
www.unfound.video
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Official soundtrack to this week's filmmaking micro-essay.
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"The rate at which the snowflakes fall depends on the materials the filmmaker has used.

And the vigour with which she shakes her little pet world."
unfoundvideo.bsky.social
This week, we look at how:

🌏 Each movie is its own self-contained world with its own physical laws.

🔮 Like a little snowglobe.

⌚ There are many ways the filmmaker can adjust the event-substance of movie-time.

🦫 Films that luxuriate in this snowglobeness of time are rare... but repetitive.
◡◶▿ TIME01 | Snowglobe time
🔮 Your characters don't know you're on a cig break nor how long is reasonable to take. Plus: Radu Jude x Adrian Martin; memories overwritten. New Systems of Time Week 1
www.unfound.video
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I think the thumbnail for every post this semester should follow more or less this composition.
unfoundvideo.bsky.social
This week, we look at how:

🌏 Each movie is its own self-contained world with its own physical laws.

🔮 Like a little snowglobe.

⌚ There are many ways the filmmaker can adjust the event-substance of movie-time.

🦫 Films that luxuriate in this snowglobeness of time are rare... but repetitive.
◡◶▿ TIME01 | Snowglobe time
🔮 Your characters don't know you're on a cig break nor how long is reasonable to take. Plus: Radu Jude x Adrian Martin; memories overwritten. New Systems of Time Week 1
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Happy October—here’s a list of 100 avant-garde horror films I recommend, and links to watch the large majority of them.
100 Avant-Garde Horror Films
(and where to see them)
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In memory of Tilly Norwood 🤖 🤪 ☠️ ⚰️ 🧟
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"A popular sprite would probably need a talent agent of some kind to ‘prompt’ it through its career choices, promotional appearances, and ‘off-screen antics.’

It is unlikely such an agent would be willing to ‘hand over the keys’ at the start of a shoot."
◡◶▿ SOFT11 | Synthetic actors
🎭 Who needs the Stanislavski Method when you can imprison your actor in an infinite prequel? | Imaginary Software of the Filmmaking Future Week 11
www.unfound.video