Today we watched a series of films in our Lecture.

Un Chein andalou

This film was made in 1928 and released in 1929, it is 17 minutes long. It is the most looked at silent film and is spanish. The director is an author, poet and playwriter. This film promotes an emotion of unease, it shows a use of photography which is an reflection of art. At the beginning this man slits a lady's eye open with a razor, I am not sure why or what the relevance is to it. Also Cyco anilitical writing was used, there was a scene with the man fondling a womans breasts which turned into her bottom which is used of fraud. It shows a useage of surrealistic movement which if did not happen we would not have any so called pop videos now. The director wanted to be automatic but couldnt as much as he wanted to. Someone mentioned in the lecture that the ants moved the same way the humans did which was odd but I am not sure what that means. The scene where the man was pulling two men with pianos which had two dead horses on them, there was tango music playing in the background it was very dream like/ nightmare scene.

Sunrise

This film was released in 1927, which had a collage squence, it is a silent film also. It is based about a woman who has come from the countryside to find herself a city man. She gets involved with a married man and tries to seuduce him and tempt him to leave his wife. There is a scene where there is a moolite courtfield, a collage of city life made from models, candles and super emposing.

Spellbound

In this film a man said "peices of a puzzle that doesnt fit". In this film there is another example of fraud. Hitchcock released this in 1943. This was a peice where darley worked with Hitchcock, they used shadows, a man with no face, odd angles, stone and landscape. There is a bit where there are pictures of eyes and this man cuts them up with scissors so we can see what is in the brain, like in the film un chien andalou but with a razor. It is important for us to realise how we have to push this industry and not stick with the same areas and same ways, if it wasnt for the past creators we would have nothing. We thank them for what we have today otherwise we wouldnt where we are now.

To be honest I found most of these films rather boring, films in black and white or silent films with subtitles really bore me and make me not want to take an interest in them.