What is this place? – Films inspired by place

Flaneur (2002)- Ruiming Wu 

I like the way I can see all the brush strokes. It has a really nice use of color. Linking back to the place I felt like it was really recognizable as london. The main character struggles with the chaos of London which is something that I can relate to. Oftaintime when chaos is depicted it puts me on edge but they did it in a way that didn’t stress me out. I think this is due to the painterly brushstrokes so there was less detail to consume. I really like the pacing. The music was very flowy. I didn’t really notice the present until there was a lull in the music. I think this is because of how I bedded the sound effects into the music. The theme of the film is to push everything to the forefront/ overstimulate. This animation was made using straight ahead – and it was digitally painted – he knew the feeling he wanted to make but not necessarily where the next shot was going to lead. He also took live references after exploring London and sketching.

Flaneur- Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867

Monet painting in the impressionist movement- focusing on how they felt in response to photography. He was on the outside of London looking in. 

To be away from home and yet feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world- impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Virginia woolf 

Street haunting 1930 – written essay – looking fo the perfect pencil as an excuse to just observe things 

Guy Debord In paris 

The society of the spectacle – Revolutionary alliance of the european avent-garde artist, writers and poets formed in1957 as international Situationiste. A mixture of marxism and surrealism 

‘spectacle is the sun that never sets over the modern passivity’