A overview in examples on how I see the cinema is mutating again.

1. Cinematic mutationswhere is cinema going and why should I care
given by Federico Bonelli
given at LPM Meeting Eindhoven 27may 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

2. Cinema is art
• and WTF art is?
• and WTF cinema is?
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

3. a place were people pay a ticket
to sit together in the dark
looking to a screen were
images are shown and
eventually listening to sounds
(popcorn is optional)
Cinema IS a SITUATION
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

4. as evolved into...
• ... so much stuff i dont want to be boring in
enumerating here...
• but is still something that deals with extreme
emotions and storytelling in some way
• that has become cheap to make...
• ...WELL ENOUGH
(aka: in a way that does not suck)
• but is harder to make money with
&
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

5. Cinema has always rewarded
and since it’s origin
the most innovative languages
and the unbounded use of new and experimental
technologies
has never been a static art&
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

6. Cinema is art
• Two examples of mutations
• a Cinematic performance
• an Happening for movie camera
SO
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

7. Symphonic cinema
http://lucasvanwoerkum.wordpress.com
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

8. Tuesday, July 1, 2014

9. http://vimeo.com/33310725
Happening for movie camera: is a situation were there is
no other viewer but the camera and it’s movement, all
participants are part of the movie making process and the
movie is seen at the end as in a shamanistic cathartic
ritual.
It remains as a trace of the event played out by a
temporary autonomous community as a poetic act.
ES.“The White People” Happening for a movie camera
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

10. http://vimeo.com/33310725
Happening for video camera
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

11. If you have got any guts, drop school
go to a library and educate yourself
(Frank Zappa.)
nofilmschool.com and other DIY cinematic blogs
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

12. Hybridization of storytelling:
the (not so interesting) way; the supercut
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

13. Jean-Luc Godard once
observed that, “Robert
Bresson is French cinema,
as Dostoevsky is the Russian
novel and Mozart is the
German music.”
... the interesting one: watch
on vimeo! https://vimeo.com/kogonada
EXAMPLE n.2
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

14. what does DSLR cinema really means
... and why is already obsolete
IS it about technique?
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

15. • DIY + Gear + Information = mutations
• try to google “DIY camera stabilization” or “DIY focus
pulling” or “a el cheapo jib arm”
• supercut vs supercutting Bresson to have a viral video
• will we be seeing the first generation of serial emulators
of Tarkowski cinematic style?
or about something bigger than that?
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

16. • so does video still exist?
• and what is the future
• well: now lit me up with your aswers :)
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

17. my name is still:
Federico Bonelli
you can find my stuff with google but I am NOT the ballet dancer
fbproduction.eu trasformatorio.net
www.vimeo.com/cinemasolubile
federico@trasformatorio.net
Tuesday, July 1, 2014