Name that Film!
The 2014 film directed by Alan Garland.
What is Ex Machina?
One of the "Granddaddies" of African American Cinema, he directed Within Our Gates (1920)
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
A special effect in which the negative is run through the camera twice during recording (record, rewind, record) to get two images to appear as one.
What is double exposure?
This film genre was named retroactively in France, when critics observed trends of heavy shadows, night-time and rainy settings, twisty plots, and bleak philosophy that anyone can easily fall into corruption.
What is Film Noir?
What is a tilt?
The 1927 film directed by Fritz Lang
What is Metropolis?
A former stage musician who became one of the founding innovators for cinematic special effects.
Who was George Melies?
A post-production process that drains out almost all of the color from a shot, leaving only one color in the image (Sin City is a really good example).
What is selective saturation?
A type of film (and other art) that sought to capture the logic of dreams. Famous examples include Un Chien Andalou and Meshes of the Afternoon.
What is Surrealism?
A compositional structure that places focal points on a grid with 9 equal divisions of space
What is the rule of thirds?
The 1915 film directed by D.W. Griffiths.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
A true auteur of the silent film era, he directed, starred, and wrote his films. And he hated the advent of sound in movies.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
The adjective that describes something that takes place within the world of the film (not in the world of the audience.)
What is diegetic?
A 1970s film genre that both depicted and exploited African American issues, designed to attract African American audiences, often depicting hypermasculine male heroes and hypersexualized women.
What is Blaxploitation?
A combination of zooming out while pushing the camera in, or the reverse
What is a dolly zoom?
First all-Asian cast Hollywood film (in 1961).
What is Flower Drum Song?
The first woman director, she created what is probably the first narrative film, "The Fairy of the Cabbages"
Who was Alice Guy Blanche?
The style of New Queer Cinema, in which the emphasis is on style, artifice, and self-referentiality.
What is Formalist?
With the most famous example being The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, this film genre created worlds that looked like the jagged interior psyche of the main character or creator.
What is (German) Expressionism?
A type of transition where the shapes in the composition of one shot align perfectly with the shapes in the composition of the next shot.
What is a graphic match?
The 1902 film that is arguably the first science fiction film.
What is "A Trip to the Moon"?
This director's film unseated Vertigo and Citizen Kane as the Best Film of All Time, according to the influential Sight and Sound
Who is Chantal Ackerman?
A way of thinking that characterizes Asia as technologically hyper-advanced but also intellectually or culturally retrograde, imagining a dystopian future in which a dominant economic East serves as an antagonist to the economic West.
What is Techno-Orientalism?
A movement of the late 1960s through the 1980s, filmmakers associated with this movement experimented with creating a socially conscious black cinema, tied to their community, without expecting industry rewards.
What is the LA Rebellion
A type of transition where the audience isn't supposed to know that there was a transition at all.
What is an invisible cut?