"The cinema is the truth twenty-four times a second." Jean Luc-Godard
Up Front NW
By Gary Ferrington
Some individuals wear T-shirts to express their passion for a favorite team, band or movie. Filmmaker Henry Weintraub has taken his fondness of the horror film genre one step further as this photo illustrates. What is it about the moving image that has such an appeal to we who watch and those that create?
Movies provide a visceral experience that evoke different moods and triggers powerful emotions that are individually experienced or shared with others. Cinema has the ability to hold our attention and excite us in so many ways. It helps shape our perceptions and attitudes on a range of issues.
Watching a movie in a darkened theater is much like sitting around a camp fire as the flickering light creates shadowy forms accompanying a narrator's story. Movies provide a vicarious experience that enables us in a relatively anonymous way to enter into the lives of others.
The moving image is unique in that it is a re-presentation of a dramatized or actual event recorded by a camera. Drama is powerfully performed by artists who, through their skill, make themselves into characters with whom we can relate - Sophie's Choice -1982. Documentary film presents the life of real people, places, and things with which we develop an empathy as in March of the Penguins - 2005. The vicariousness of the moving image is about as close to "real life " as one can get from a mediated experience.
This issue of the Proscenia Newsletter includes features and links to film and video resources as we devote space to the art filmmaking.
This month:
Feature Article: Now that your film or video production is completed, how do you get it seen and eventually distributed? This month's feature looks at options for getting that indie film off the shelf and onto the screen.
Random Links: The appreciation of film as art can be approached from many directions. One is understanding the historical development of film and the language of image and sound as it has evolved since the turn of the last century. The links this month direct the reader to online sites related to the history of the cinema.
Site Visit: ZoneZero is a site on the internet dedicated to photography and its journey from the analog to digital world. The gallery section demands the most of your computer with the presentation of stunning images by artists using the web to make their work known to the public.
Lighter Side: During the summer solstice weekend, June 19-21, 2004 more than 110
photographers in 32 countries captured QuickTime VR panoramas to represent the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) theme of "World Heritage." This interactive site is a delight to explore.
On The Desktop: News from world sources about film, video, multimedia, and technology in society.
NW JOBS: Current postings of career opportunities in: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and occasionally other nearby states.
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