Well said...

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Here's something pretty cool and inspiring from Bernard Rose the director of 'ivans xtc' which he wrote after making the film (which is excellent by the way):

Walking through the Art Institute of Chicago I was struck by something. The gallery, which concentrates on European painting, is arranged in chronological order; the flat two dimensional early religious works give way to the renaissance experiments with depth and perspective, which in turn give way to the overblown work of nineteenth century genre paintings - ugly gaudy canvasses with observation and subject matter taken entirely from convention.

And then comes the Impressionists. The breath of fresh air is palpable. No more sylphs dancing in fake ancient settings. Now we get Manet's girl friends - dressed and undressed as they are, not some paying patron or king. We see Van Gogh's bare room - the place he actually lived. The lily pond in Monet's back yard. The light fairly shines from these canvasses - the real light, as it might fall on a haystack at different times of the day.

This is the heart of the digital revolution. Most people are not constantly back-lit in real life. At night the 'moonlight' does not come from a high crane with powerful arc lights that cast a blue glare as bright as any baseball stadium. Women do not wake up in bed with perfect hair and make-up. Industrial Cinema is a legitimate form - but it is stuck in rigid conventions, hamstrung by money, and like traditional oil painting, has entered its decadent phase.

In digital cinema your girlfriend is the star. Your back yard is the set. Your life is the script.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 08, 2002 03:59 PM: Message edited by: twister! ]</font>

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Yep. Nice. [img]biggrin.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]