I found another music video which could be helpful in giving ideas for our Nantes documentary, obviously the narrative is completely different but there are some nice first-person shots in it that we could use as inspiration for what we are going to do. The link is below, check it out if you can!
Under The Skin - Featurette's on Music, Sound Design and The Hidden Lens
The Flâneur, Psychogeography and Drift Photography
These articles may give some inspiration or context for your film in Nantes?
1st Person, Adventure, Flâneur, Exploring the city
Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.Walter Benjamin, A Berlin Chronicle 1
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38,000 miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and a terabyte of footage = the trip of a lifetime. Start your own adventure at http://www.statravel.com.au/ Watch these 3 travelers (Rick Mereki, Andrew Lees and Tim White) move, eat and learn their way around the world.
Benjamin the surrealist collects together the images of the city that the flâneur presents to him, to be left with a vast array of past objects, buildings and spaces that he then attempts to reassemble into illuminating order.Deborah Parsons, ‘Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity’
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Baudelaire established a tradition that moved through the early modernists, to the Surrealists and on to the Situationists. As part of the latter movement, Guy Debord developed the notions of the dérive and the ‘spectacle’. A dérive (in English ‘drift’) is the means by which ‘psycho-geographies’ are achieved. A drift is an unplanned walk, usually through a city or marginal area, and a psycho-geography involves the walker creating a mental map of the city which:
depends on the walker ‘seeing’ and being drawn into events, situations and images by an abandonment to wholly unanticipated attraction.
Chris Jenks (ed), ‘Visual Culture’ More
The video to the song - an edited version of Dziga Vertov's 1929 movie of the same name. Must be shared. Just to clarify, I did not make this. It was created for/by the Jason Swinscoe & Co. to my knowledge. Also: Buy their new album, "Ma Fleur." Amazing.
Flâneur with a Movie Camera
'In these early city symphonies and documentary films of the Soviet avant-garde, we find the city itself as stand-imotor modernity. The filmmakers turn their cameras to their contemporary moment like the Baudelarian flâneur as described by Walter Benjamin. The flâneur is a wanderer and observer. In the 19th century the flâneur strolled the streets of quintessential modernist cities like New York, Paris, and London, return home only to record the images of the day with pen and paper. In the 1920s and 30s, Dziga Vertov and others seem to emerge as a more instantaneous version of the flâneur. Rather than waiting to record the images in writing, the filmmakers are able to document their wanderings as they happen, evoking a sense of immediacy.
The flâneur does not wander in straight lines, nor in temporal sequence. In Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera,” the flâneur, the eponymous “Man,” is a collage/montagist, collecting and arranging is hosts and images without regard for narrative or temporal sequence. When the flâner turns the camera on the city, he finds complexity and unity. Fittingly, Strand and Sheeler’s film borrows from Whitman, the American flâneur, wandering the country and rejoicing in Democracy. Such democratic ideals emerge in Grierson’s documentary of a fishing trawler, as the filmmaker does not discriminate in subject matter but rather embraces the laborer as appropriate for artistic treatment as are kings'. Source
In 2008, I walked through China - 1 year, 4500km. I let my hair and my beard grow. This is the resulting video. Add me on FB: ▶ https://facebook.com/crehage on TW: ▶ https://twitter.com/crehage or drop by on my site: ▶ http://www.crehage.com INFO: ▶ I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany.
Further Reading/ References
Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life", (New York: Da Capo Press, 1964). Orig. published in Le Figaro, in 1863.
Digital, Audio Visual, Communication - Volunteering Opportunities
Clem has spoken with a Sarah Gottesman from Penny Brohn Cancer care who says she has some work placement/experience opportunities that may benefit some of you.
These roles may be of interest. Use Link below to find out more and apply.
See Richard, Jimmy or Clem if you are interested.
Communications Intern
Increase awareness and highlight the work of the charity by contributing to the brand, marketing and PR work at an exciting time in the charity’s history. We are looking for a creative individual who will bring enthusiasm and initiative to the role which will be varied and responsive. You will need strong research skills, a flair for writing and the ability to be proactive and work unsupervised. We need someone two days a week, ideally for six months.
Digital Curation Volunteer
Maximise the potential of our images and other digital assets so these resources can be used effectively. We are looking for a skilled and highly organised individual with an eye for detail to help collate, categorise and file images and other media files. You will also need to identify effective images for publication across a variety of media. This is a finite project and we need you to commit two days a week (flexible) until the project is completed.
Audio Visual Volunteer
Build our digital assets library to ensure we have relevant quality images, video and audio for use across a range of platforms. We are looking someone with practical skills who can produce publishable materials in photo, video and audio formats. The work will be varied, including capturing client stories and images, a wide variety of events as well our facilities and generating other relevant material. It will allow us to be more accessible and bring to life the services we offer clients. This role requires flexibility and work would vary in time and location depending on what is being recorded.
Web Administrator for the shop website
Increase web sales to help fund our services.
The website needs regular updating including amending items and adding new products, images and special promotions.
We are looking for someone who is confident with IT systems, happy to learn new software and is able to use their own initiative. Training on the website software and a full induction are provided. We need someone who is able to offer a day a week.
UPDATE: Vote to choose the best version of Feminism supercut
I am nearly finished a 90 second supercut film about strong female chacracters in films (2000 - 2014). I would like you to vote for any of the previews I previously edited and released on Vimeo. Click the link to my recent blog post below for more details: