Russo is a contemporary experimental filmmaker and animator, who studied at the California Institute of the Arts. "Goodbye" is an CGI-award-winning animated short film incorporating recorded interviews and experimentation with pace and cutting to create an interesting timeline. This 10-month project was modeled using Zbrush, animated in Cinema4D, edited in After Effects where the film's heavy use of color-correction and experimentation with composition were designed. It was then pieced together in premiere.
Deren was a Russian-American experimental and avant-garde filmmaker in the 1940'5-50's before she died in 1961. Her fascination with dance, Haitian Voodou and psychology informed a lot of her work. Deren's films use a lot of jumpcuts, superimposition, slow-frame rates and multiple-exposure to achieve her surreal, black and white films. Derren acknowledged dance in "Ritual in Transfigured Time" in suggesting, “A ritual is an action that seeks the realisation of its purpose through the exercise of form…In ritual, the form is the meaning. It’s an inversion towards life, the passage from sterile winter into fertile spring”. – Maya Deren: Chamber Films, program notes for a presentation, 1960 Menken was an American filmmaker who first worked as a painter but grew bored of its static nature and moved into avant-garde film as a part of the Gryphon Group in the 1940's. Her background in painting influenced her filming style, as evident in her animations, collage and stop-motion work. "Lights" is a silent color film on 16mm, and two-year project finished in '66. Making use of color and abstract movement, akin to scribbles and mark-making is indeed painterly. Jesse Smith's 2016 "Ants" is an experimental short film using a monologue about fear and helplessness to instigate spatial and design fluctuations. The sound design makes use of repetition, speed and pitch experiments to reflect the character's narrative. Relatable content. |