And here are some minimalist typographic movie posters:
Check out the links above, if you want to see some more posters...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Alternative Movie Posters
I found some movie posters, which are designed by designers and not used for the advertisement of that movie. They are just fun and nice designed posters. Here are some:
Friday, November 18, 2011
Ten Minutes Older
'Ten Minutes Older' is a short documentary film directed by Herz Frank in 1978. It composed of one camera shot without any cuts and without any spoken word, which makes it very successful, because during the movie it is possible to see an incredible variety of feelings and facial expressions. Ten Minutes Older is one big shot of the children who watch movie on the cinema hall and how they react to the movie. The viewer never see what happens on the screen, it is just possible to hear the sound of the movie and see the faces of children. The importance of the documentary is that it stresses out that the art is here to make us experience the feelings and unite people with the power of same feelings. Herz Frank mentions that
“If you are observant, if you look not only with your eyes, but also with your heart, the life, for sure, will present you with some particular discovery. Then, the reality recorded by you will gain the artistic value, become in line with art, and will always excite people. The facts and events can become old. They can become history. The feelings we felt regarding those events stay with us. Therefore, art is the only living bridge between people of various generations, between time periods.”
In 2002 an amount of directors made each of them a 10 minutes long movie which is dedicated to the Herz Frank's movie and collected under the names of "Ten Minutes Older: Cello" and "Ten Minutes Older: Trumpet". As a concept the movies have in common the issue of time and while watching it, it is possible to think that some smart and talented directors are just brainstorming about time. Jean Luc Godard, Jim Jarmush, Werner Herzog, Aki Kaurismäki and Spike Lee is just 5 names from the list of 15 director who has its movie on the collection.
In the both of the movies I really liked the one of the Werner Herzog and Jean Luc Godard the best. The documentary of Herzog is about a tribe in Africa which was discovered 20 years ago and was still in the stone age before the discovery. So it is a smart idea to talk about time in a such situation.
10 000 Years Older:
The version of Godard shows the last minutes of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and cinema. I liked the idea behind the movie and the visualization of that moments.
Dans le noir du temps:
If you are interested in watching other movies, you can find some other of them on youtube or you can just order a DVD of the movie. And for further information: http://www.tenminutesolder.com/
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Sexism and Commercials
Unfortunately we're all grown up in a society, where gender roles dominates our whole existence and tell us how to live, which standardize people and mostly causes negative discrimination against women or homosexuals. Nowadays the media and especially visual media supports and recreates stereotypes and gender roles again and again. In my opinion if something supports discrimination, it is worthless and meaningless, even if it has been made very successfully. Therefore artists have to be very interested in ethics and make right decisions, because the thing they do - especially for commercial artists - could be very effective and have interpreted negatively. Anyhow; today I saw a lot of advertisements, which were very supportive to reproduce gender roles. That's why I am telling all this stuff and writing this blog entry to be more sensitive about these kind of ethical issues. And here it is
Women and being beautiful...
Women and gender roles...
Body as tool
And here are some TV Commercials
Club Orange Commercial
Mercedes
Dr. Pepper
If you are interested in looking at more sexist commercials here are the links of my research:
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