Filmmakers Presentation

I liked the animation of Martha Colburn. It seemed like she cut out her animations with construction paper, stitched them together and created something amazing. My favorite piece of hers was the Pug the dog taks about sex education, it gave a lighthearted yet informative view on sex education which was in my opinion more accurate than the videos we were shown as children.


Marlon Riggs had some amazing pieces with him backing his films with his black and gay pride. The biggest take away from his pieces was his instructions on using snaps to express emotion. I've taken his instructions literally as I now have snap off with my friends when words escape us. 

I liked that Guy Madden took an ode to older styles of cinematography and film making to make his pieces. The use of German Expressionism was obvious but it seemed to fit his surrealist vision. I was confused about his fascination with Winnipeg but I could see that through his pieces Winnipeg was home to him and he was very fond of home.

And finally Aaron Koblin is driving the future with virtual reality media. Before this class I was under the impression that VR technology had not come far enough to create pieces of video on it but to find that there is a database full of VR videos was very exciting. I plan to spend some time watching those videos.

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