Soliloquy has long been used in dramas. Some of the greatest scenes in Shakespeare are built around this narrative element, for example, Macbeth observing that life is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” But although it’s ancient, by no means is soliloquy obsolete. As we see in the…
read more →Dubbing is often used to improve the clarity of dialogue, for example, when a noisy environment interferes with what the performers are saying. . This technique might be labeled “functional dubbing.” But filmmakers have long understood that dialogue replacement has great comedic potential. You’ll see–and hear—a wonderful example of “creative dubbing” in “Felix,” a prize-winning…
read more →Some genres are easy to define. Sci fi, for example, typically gives us a window on the near or distant future. In a horror picture, there’s almost always some sort of monster. But the experimental movie by its nature more difficult to pin down. Involving trial and error, its raison d’être is to fashion something…
read more →In 1722, Daniel Defoe published “A Journal of the Plague Year,” a novel based on his uncle’s first-hand accounts of the Great Plague of London (1665). To capture the reality of the calamity, Defoe focused on specific places. Carrying on that tradition, for the past few weeks, Cassius Rayner has been filming the impact of…
read more →Adebayo Okeowo is an African human rights lawyer and filmmaker. A couple of years ago we featured his heartbreaking “Not for Sale,” a one-minute public service announcement about the perils of human migration. Now, taking on a very different genre, the director gives us “Abuja: People & Places.” Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja is home to about…
read more →According to the TV Tropes wiki, the phrase “Torn from today’s headlines” was originally used by Warner Bros. in the 1930s. They used the catchphrase “to promote the gritty realism of their ‘social problem’ films.” Now, almost a century later, New York-based filmmaker Jeffrey Turboff has continued that tradition with “Homebody,” a gripping six-minute film…
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