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Best /film/ representative? inconnu 01/26/15 (Mon) 17:16:06 No.2977

I am going to be doing a school project very soon and it is about a director of my choice. Who do you think is the greatest representative of patrician cinematography and why? I myself cannot choose between Tarkovskij and Brakhage, to me they both represent the perfect polar opposites, one being passionate about film as a medium to express feelings only through the most artistic ways and the other perfecting the filmmaking itself and making little experiments.

inconnu 01/26/15 (Mon) 21:30:38 No.2982

Well, are you supposed to pick the "best" or pick someone who would be interesting to research?

inconnu 01/27/15 (Tue) 01:05:52 No.2987

>>2977
Either Ben Rivers or Ben Russel and not because they're particularly good but because in a world where everything gets stale by memeification, one needs to consistently look towards the obscure and current avant-garde for new inspiration. These two are considered 'emerging' at the moment but in as little as twelve months time may no longer be.

>there are literally thousands of avant-garde artists who were once considered most prominent or emerging filmmakers
>their work will never be widely available enough to see

Tarkovsky is good, Brakhage is good but there's so much neither of them covered.

inconnu 01/27/15 (Tue) 02:11:12 No.2989

OP have you read this before. Tarkovsky meets Brakhage at Telluride

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Brakhage_and_Tarkovsky.html

one of my all time fav film stories

inconnu 01/27/15 (Tue) 06:02:26 No.2990

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>>2989
>>2989
>Tarkovsky told the Russian emigre that it was the stupidest film he ever saw.
How can one man be so based? Jesus christ.

inconnu 01/27/15 (Tue) 06:25:35 No.2993

>>2989
Thanks for sharing, that's a great story. I regret that I haven't read too deeply into the biographies of these men.

I wasn't expecting to see Zbigniew Rybszynski pop up, another one of my faves. It's interesting to hear how these personalities interact with one another.

I think this is the Korean plane incident mentioned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

>>2990
So he does smile!

Any guesses as to the film they watched?

> Then, a further irony, we all had to sit there and watch a film by a Russian emigre that Tarkovsky had promised to watch. We had to endure a stupid, senseless movie in which the Russian girl who's fat can't get a boyfriend or adjust to America. It felt about ten hours long although it was only half an hour.

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