MARA DEREN
She was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and the promoting of avant-garde in the 40's and 50's. I actually studied her work last semester. She was also very much involved with dance, choreographer, lecturer, photographer, she was also interested in the occult.
Derek believed film to be an art form, made to create an experience. In her films she combined her dance, Haitian Vodou and the surreal to create such experiences along with camera techniques. Deren's films were black and white shorts, using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and to forth which turned her vision into a stream of consciousness abandoning the physical space and time. Her most influential experimental film was Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), which portrayed a journey through a mythological dream.
Still from Battle of the Algiers
directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo was and Italian filmmaker who won and Oscar for his most famous work The Battle of the Algiers. This was a war film based on the Algerian War against the French government in North Africa. The movie was shot on location, black and white in documentary style type of editing, which is associated with Italian neorealism cinema. The film is on Empire's magazine top list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. It touches on the subject of socio-political controversy and it was only screened in France five years later after its release.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso)
directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
This still is from Cinema Paradiso, Tornatore's best known screen work, released in 1988. The film narrates the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of his mentor. The film was worldwide successful and it won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Luiz Bunuel Portoles
Portoles was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France. He was considered a revolutionary, leader of avant-garde surrealism. This association with surrealism movement happened from the 20's to the 70's. His work includes experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and a western. Six of
Bunuel 's films are included on the top 250 films of all time, and he ranks number 14 on their list of the top 250 directors.
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