The new German film God of Happiness was shown on the 4th of July as the opening film of the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival and won two top awards – Best Director award for Dito Tsintsadze and Ralf M. Mendle received the award for Best Cinematography. It is a tragi-comedy set in modern Germany
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10 Mistakes of Beginner Filmmakers
Bad casting. Do not give roles only for the reason that it is cheap or free of charge. Although you might have great friends that does not mean they will make great actors. Actors should be either professional or similar to their characters both visually and behaviorally. Bad composition of the frame. Avoid extreme close-ups,
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Nature of Life in Cinema
“Ex Machina” is a science fiction film which tells a story of a young programmer, Caleb who is invited by his employer, Nathan, to administer the Turing test to a female robot, Ava who has Artificial Intelligence. The film investigates the subject of creation of a woman which has a long history in both literature
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Problems of Humanism in Solaris by Tarkovsky
The film Solaris was based on the fantastic novel by Stanislaw Lem but there is no doubt that the film adaptation by Tarkovsky is much deeper and more interesting than the novel. The novel of Stanislaw Lem is more about the exploration of the cosmos and the film of Tarkovsky is more about the earth
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Dreams of Home in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
The dreamlike images of home present in many of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films have an allegorical meaning and reflect the transformation of the conscious and of the subconscious world of the author. Andrei Tarkovsky is renowned for metaphorical language, philosophical dialogue, esoteric symbolism and the blending between the subjective and objective. In his memoir Sculpting in
