During the easter holiday I decided to start my wabi sabi film project. It was difficult to find a good time to take the film clips and images because the weather wasn’t that good. I needed a day where the sky was clear so I could capture the different colours and the sunset. I decided to base my film during the evening when the sun is setting because that’s when the light is at its best because of the colours that are created.
Daily Archives: April 6, 2018
Filters
wabi sabi film // ideas
As well as a photo book I also plan to create a short cinematic film capturing scenes of everyday life and nature. The film The tree of life is my main source of inspiration for this project as well as the photographer Rinko Kawauchi with her Sublime imagery. To create the film I need to capture a lot of imagery of a few second shots of different things such as light, the sea and everyday events. An idea for the film is to use a subject, a model, as the focus of the film. The film would be about the different things that occur throughout their day while interspersing scenes of nature throughout. I also want to focus on light and how it effects nature throughout the day by capturing different shadows and angles.
My whole project is about the insignificant things and the spiritual elements of everyday so this is also what I plan to capture throughout the film. Like the film The Tree of Life I want to capture immensely beautiful things and scenes. The mood board above contains images of different things and aesthetics that I want to use as ideas for my film.
research // the tree of life
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/07/the-tree-of-life-
reviewhttps://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-tree-of-life-2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0
The link above is a link to the trailer for the film, The Tree of Life.
The tree of life is an American film created in 2011 by the director Terrence Malik. It was described as an “experimental epic drama film”. The film is about the origins and meaning of life through the view point of a middle-aged man and the memory of his childhood. His
family lived in 1950’s Texas. The film contains clips from his memory, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and life on earth. The film was named the 7th greatest film since 2000 in BBC poll of 177 critics. The main story line throughout the film is the lessons that the oldest son, Jack learns whilst growing up alongside his two other brothers. The clips of his memories are interspersed with amazing images of nature and life. Some of the lessons and emotions that Jack learns about is jealousy, loss, lust and anger.
In a review by Robert Elbert he’s describes the film as “a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives.” The film contains so much human emotion and feeling. When watching the film you immediately connect with it through your own experiences which is what makes the film so powerful.
Malik captures some of the most simplest events in life and portray them in an immensely impacting way. He uses his own memories of his home town and childhood to create portraits of everyday life. The film was inspired by two things, space and time, and spirituality. Malik is a christian and believes in the viewpoint of God creating the world. The film contains visuals suggesting the birth and expansion of the universe, the appearance of life and the evolution of species. The film contains elements of time ; one of the children dying. We also witness the oldest son grown into a middle aged man.The film also contains spiritual elements because Malik includes a scene of an afterlife , a desolate landscape where peopler seen recognising and greeting each other.
