Sound
It doesn't have a visible onscreen source
What is asynchronous sound?
Potatoes play an important role in this documentary.
What is The Gleaners and I?
Deren explained that with this film she wanted to “to put on film the feeling which a human being experiences about an incident, rather than to record the incident accurately.”
What is Meshes of the Afternoon?
Another term for look that became closely associated with feminist film theory.
What is the gaze?
At its heart, this film is about waste and the rampant consumerism in the West.
What is The Gleaners and I?
Narration is the most common example of this sound technique
What is a voiceover?
This documentary style or mode emerged in the late 1950s as sync sound equipment and lightweight 16mm cameras became available.
What is observational?
With Mothlight, the artist glued moth wings, fragments of plants, and other debris right onto the film strip.
Who is Stan Brakhage?
The author in this essay shows how the unconscious of patriarchal society impacted film form.
What is "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" by Laura Mulvey?
This character in this film says: "It's a hard world for little things."
Who is Rachel Cooper in The Night of the Hunter?
Sound that contrasts in meaning with what's depicted onscreen.
What is contrapuntal sound?
What are expository, participatory, and observational modes?
This filmmaker joked that they spent on their films what Hollywood spends on lipstick for its leading actresses.
Who is Maya Deren?
This theorist and social critic criticized 1970s feminist film theory for not taking into account class, race, and other social aspects of each woman.
If born in a different time, perhaps character would have had a career in music.
Who is Héloïse?
"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" is associated with these two characters in Night of the Hunter
Who are Preacher and Rachel Cooper?
The Gleaners and I was shot on this type of camera.
What is a miniDV?
Fireworks, made in 1947, is considered to be a seminal work of queer cinema by this filmmaker and artist.
Who is Kenneth Anger?
In these films, according to Mulvey, "the look is central to the plot, oscillating between voyeurism and fetishistic fascination."
What are Vertigo, Marnie, and Rear Window (all by Hitchcock)?
These 3 films that we watched tell much of their story in flashback
What are Double Indemnity, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Portray of a Lady on Fire?
"Pretty Fly," a song that transports us into another world, is sung by this character.
Who is Pearl?
Name at least on object that Agnes Varda gleans on one of her trips
What is the clock without hands? What are heart-shaped potatoes?
This filmmaker and artist is inspired by deteriorated old films to create some of the most haunting cinematic works.
Who is Bill Morrison?
This character's exhibitionism, as Mulvey notes, "has been established by her obsessive interest in dress and style, in being a passive image of visual perfection."
Who is Lisa from Rear Window?
She pretends to have a dinner party with an imagined love interest in this film.
Who is Ms. Lonelyhearts in Rear Window?