Essays about: "Art Cinema"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Art Cinema.

  1. 1. Authorship in AI Cinema : The Frost through the lens of Walter Benjamin

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Taras Låvenberg; [2024]
    Keywords : Authorship; AI; AI Cinema; Critical film theory; Generative Media; Film Studies; The Frost; Walter Benjamin.;

    Abstract : The rapid development of generative AI technology challenges traditional ideas of authorship. This thesis investigates the concept of authorship in AI cinema, an emerging approach to filmmaking where advanced AI technology is used in the film production process. The study is focused on the AI film The Frost (Josh Rubin, 2023). READ MORE

  3. 2. Synaesthesia and Visual Music in Swedish Silent Film

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Gustav Ribbing Lygon; [2023]
    Keywords : Silent Film; Synaesthesia; Visual Music; Gesamtkunstwerk; Photogénie; Gesture; Symbolism; Correspondences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how visual music in Swedish silent film served as an allusion to sound, either as a cinematic effect or as an intertwined part of the film narrative. Drawing on the concepts of synaesthesia and visual music, a discussion on how both concepts relate to each other serves as the key method for analyzing a selection of films. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Role of Art as a Strategy for Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Bogotá, Colombia : A narrative investigation of Colombian artists and victims

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Valentina Flechas Guzmán; [2023]
    Keywords : Art; Reconciliation; Peacebuilding; Colombia; Truth; Peace; Mercy; Justice; Arte; Reconciliación; Construcción de Paz; Colombia; Verdad; Paz; Misericordia; Justicia;

    Abstract : Due to processes of change, there has been an increase in reconciliation initiatives around Colombia directed at promoting spaces for human interaction and social reconstruction to be encourage. This repertoire of strategies nurture collective memory, individual trauma healing and communities’ transformation, and become a place for peacebuilding to take place. READ MORE

  5. 4. Western Esotericism references in Dario Argento’s triology The Three Mothers

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emilie Spagnoli; [2023]
    Keywords : Occultism; Esotericism; film critic; Steiner; feminine power; gender; Dario Argento; horror cinema; Suspiria; Inferno; The Mother of Tears;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the influences and references, with a particular focus from occultism and western esotericism, found in the film trilogy of The Three Mothers directed by Dario Argento. The trilogy composed of Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears was produced in a timeframe of thirty years from 1977 to 2007, so it embeds three decades, it also reflects the willingness from the director to disconnect himself from the usual representation of supernatural and horror films of witches and power. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Many Layers of Sergei Parajanov : A Life’s Work Reprised

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Anna Strohmeyer; [2022]
    Keywords : Parajanov; dissident; censorship; sexual identity; poetic cinema; Soviet; post-Soviet; individual freedom; artistic freedom; prison art; queer studies; diachronic case study; political prisoner; historical revisionism; erasure;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis examines the various biographical threads, which created the complex fabric of Sergei Parajanov’s life and work, especially his films. His origins, education, marriages, family life, and friendships forged in film school and in the various studios, where he worked, are used to frame his cinematic productions. READ MORE