Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2015

The Art of David Lynch

The man who intrigued, inspired and amazed me with his cinematic masterpieces - David Lynch, is the king of film absurdity. Absurdity - a rather not too talked about term in film language is a cult theater specter, bravely taken up by playwrights like Beckett, Genet, Ionesco and several others. As absurd our life is, as absurd our feelings are, as absurd our existence and creation is, the art which is trying to express these feelings will be. A painter turned director, Lynch discovered a space in the film medium in which he could be intuitively absurd and dramatically consistent at the same time. He discovered the sub-conscious cinema. May be it was Bunuel who discovered it, may be Leos Carax puts it more perfectly, but it was Lynch who had the ability to haunt you with his film for your entire life. Six men getting sick, The Alphabet, The Amputee - these are not the themes of short film anyone would choose who wants to be a director. Neither were his paintings ordinary. '

With a Girl of Black Soil

A hidden gem, a precious film, a thing of beauty and a stunning dance of reality. Coincidentally, I landed on the page Jeon Soo Il and was intrigued by posters of his films. Obviously, I searched for his films and it turns out that he is not that popular with no seeds for almost his every film. What better a cinema can be than the one which envelopes you in a world of its own, overshadowing it's creator and leaving space for you to be in and witness horrible events through the eyes of a child for whom everything is fun and beautiful? With the Girl of Black Soil is a must watch! Like always, read it after you watch it! Opening up with a haunting scene of a child's dream, we see a girl looking at herself in the mirror, hazy. In a minimalist film where no camera movement was more than required, Jeon Soo Il has discovered a visual way of storytelling where every scene is conveying something without saying anything. A character driven film is not my general