arab cinema & digital cinema Flashcards
1st feature film to be produced entirely digitally:
toy story, 1995
toy story was produced digitally, but when it was shown in cinemas…
it had to be printed on celluloid bc thats what projectors required
the first film to be projected digitally
Star wars phantom menace, 1999
first big budget live action film to be shot entirely digitally
star wars attack of the clones 2002
first feature films to be shot entirely digitally
the celebration/the idiots, 1998
Dogme95 was a [1], heavily influenced by [2]
- danish film movement
- cinema veritie
Dogme95 made dramas or documentaries?
dramas
Dogme95 drew from cinema veritie both…
technologically and ideologically
dogme95 filmmakers made a set of rules called [1], which required [2]
- the vow of chastity
- them to be truthful in certain ways
In their manifesto they drew attention to the [1] enabled by digital cinema, which is [2]
- democratization
- much cheaper to shoot than celluloid
first film of the dogme95 movement?
the celebration (vinterberg, 1998)
who is Anthony Dod Mantle
Pioneer of digital filmmaking for feature theatrical fiction films
Abbas kiarostami is an iranian director who’s well known for
blending documentary and fiction in aesthetically realist modes
the festival circuit refers to
the tour that many films do if international film festivals
Ways that films can go to festivals:
be submitted
be invited
Lerger festivals develop relationships with filmmakers/studios so they can
always premiere their work
Festivals are important to an audience bc
films that never get broader distribution in a country can still be seen on a big screen
film fests are important for filmmakers bc:
it gives the opportunity for publicity
film fests are important for distributors bc:
they provide a marketplace
Much of arab cinema may not survive without
the festival curcuit
some islamic cultures have prioritized linguistic art rather than visual bc
there is debate in islam about the use of figurative or representational art, especially the representation of the human figure
Historically the most prolific film industry of the arab world was
egyptian cinema
Outside of egypt, the film industries aren’t large and established enough to
produce and distribute films that make enough money from arab speaking audiences
arab film industries & their product must be seen in a context of
globalization rather than post-colonialism
funding for arab cinema comes largely from
the west
the funding structure makes arab cinema what types of cinema?
auteur and art house
One of the ways that auteurism is used is that we see
female filmmakers
contemporary arab cinema has echos of
french new wave film theory
orientalism is defined as
representations of the east by westerners for the pleasure and consumption of westerners
Can be suggested that arab cinema is a kind of neo-orientalist project bc
it is mainly funded by europeans and made for a festival curcuit that predominatly takes place in the west
saudi had a ban on public movie screenings until
2018
Haifaa Al-Mansour is the
writer/director of wadjda
Al-Mansour has emphasized that digital cinema
gave her the freedom and flexibility to learn
wadjda was the first feature film to be
written & directored by a women and shot entirely in saudi
