Collage movies are movie styles created by pairing recordings found from different sources. This term has also been applied to the physical collection of materials into film stock.
Video Collage film
Surrealist root of collage film
The surrealist movement played an important role in the creation of a collage film form. In 1936, American artist Joseph Cornell produced one of the earliest collage films with his reassembly East of Borneo (1931), combined with other pieces of film, into a new piece entitled Rose Hobart after the leading actress. When Salvador DalÃÆ' saw the movie, he was famously furious, believing Cornell had stolen the idea from his mind. But Adrian Brunel made, twelve years earlier, Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924) and Henri Storck was conceived, four years earlier, The Story of the Unknown soldiers ( Histoire du soldat inconnu ) (1932.)
The idea of ​​combining films from various sources also appealed to other surrealist artists AndrÃÆ'Â © Breton. In the city of Nantes, he and his friend Jacques VachÃÆ'Â © will travel from one cinema to the other, without ever staying for the entire film.
Maps Collage film
Renaissance
A recording film renaissance was found to emerge after Bruce Conner's A Movie (1958). The film combines a short film clip in a dialectic montage. A well-known sequence consisting of different clips shows "a submarine captain who seems to see a woman clad skimpily through her periscope and responds by firing a torpedo that produces a nuclear explosion followed by a large wave driven by a surfboard rider." Conner continued to produce several other recording films that were found including Report and Intersections among others.
Working on the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1960s, Arthur Lipsett filmed collages like Very Good, Very Good (1961) and 21-87 (1963)) , entirely composed of recordings found discarded during the editing of other films (the former earned an Academy Award nomination).
In 1968, the young Joe Dante made The Movie Orgy with producer Jon Davidson featuring censors, trailers and advertisements from various shows and movies.
Recent examples
Other well-known users of this technique are Craig Baldwin in his films Spectrum of Spectrum , Tribulation 99 and O No Coronado . Bill Morrisson used a recording found missing and ignored in a movie archive in his work in 2002 Decasia (which, together with Kevin Rafferty's 1982 Cold War insinuation The Atomic Cafe was inducted into the National Film Registry). Similar entries in the recording found were Peter Delpeut Lyrical Nitrate (1991).
The technique is used in the feature film of 2008 The Memories of Angels , a visual ode to Montreal consisting of stock recordings of over 120 NFB films from the 1950s and 1960s. Terence Davies used the same technique to create Of Time and the City , considering his life grew up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, using newsreel and documentary footage complemented by his own comments and contemporary music and classic. soundtrack.
The 2016 Fraud experimental documentary stems from more than a hundred hours of home video footage uploaded to YouTube by an unknown family in the United States. The tape was paired with additional clips customized from other YouTube users and converted into a 53-minute crime movie about families preoccupied with extreme material consumption to escape unsustainable personal debt.
Comedy
Some of the earliest surreal collage works are very funny. The tradition of using the collage film for the comedic effect can be seen in commercial films like Woody Allen's first film, What's Up, Tiger Lily? Where Allen took a Japanese spy film by Senkichi Taniguchi, re-edited parts of it and wrote a new soundtrack consisting of his own dialogue for comic effects, and Carl Reiner's comedy in 1982 Dead Men Do not Wear Plaid which combines footage of about two dozen classic noir films along with the original sequence with Steve Martin.
Physical movie collection
Some filmmakers have taken a more literal approach to collage film. Stan Brakhage filmed by collecting objects found between clear film stocks, then passing the results through optical printers, such as at Mothlight and The Garden of Earthly Delights .
Animation
An example of an animated collage movie (which uses clippings from newspapers, comics, and magazines beside other inanimate objects):
- Oscar winning film Frank
- Our Lady of the Sphere
- Lewis Klahr and Janie Geiser's movies
- Charles Braverman American Time Capsule
- Magic of Heaven and Earth
- The works of Stan Vanderbeek and Robert Breer
- The Mothlight mentioned earlier and The Garden of Earthly Delights
References
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