With the rise of more time flexible distribution platforms, filmmaker Andrei Severny thinks it's time for cinema to break free from the old established running time restrictions. In this article, which was originally published on Tribeca's Future of Film blog, Severny argues against the bias towards movies that run 120 minutes. Just because two hours has become the norm, doesn't mean we should ignore films of unconventional length. Read an excerpt of his piece below and the full story here. Time is what cinema is made of. This art form stands out among the rest because its intrinsic nature lies in the visual flow of recorded time. In the book Sculpting in Time (1986), Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky noted how time is the main organizing force in cinema. "The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm, expressing the course of time within the frame." Tarkovsky was the master of long shots of true cinematic magnetism,...
- 11/4/2013
- by Andrei Severny
- Indiewire
Movie theaters have transformed over the past five decades from glitzy palaces displaying larger-than-life images to banal mall destinations with digital projection. But what will the movie theater of the future be like -- and how will we experience projected images decades from now? In a guest post from Tribeca Film's "Future of Film" blog, filmmaker and visual artist Andrei Severny imagines the movie theater of the future in which "cinema will quite literally start to merge and replace real life." It's a thrilling and terrifying idea. Read some of his thoughts below: Theaters will gradually move away from looking at a rectangle of light in a dark room and evolve into large-scale public attractions becoming urban theme parks, where cinema is only part of the experience. However, the most immersive forms of cinema will play individually at one’s wish outside of both theaters and displays. There will be...
- 9/7/2013
- by Andrei Severny
- Indiewire
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