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Story design em curtas-metragens ficcionais
Esse texto é uma tradução do original em inglês que Richard Raskin escreveu para o livro Raindance writer’s lab + sell the hot screenplay (Grove, E. 2009. Londres: Focal Press, p. 119–126). O propósito desse artigo é propor um modelo que possa ser usado como um guia na escrita de roteiros para curtas-metragens e que…
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The philosophy guidebook to Black Mirror — Part 1 (Automodernism)
You’ve seen it all. The future is bright and the future is now. If there is contemporary sci fi series that better understands the time we live in it’s Black Mirror. You’ve seen all the episodes and want to dig deeper into the theories and philosophy that inspired it? Look no further for here you’ll…
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Diary – Cave of Forgotten Dreams
I first saw Werner Herzog’s 3d documentary on a random afternoon in 2011, when in a retrospective it was screened at Cinesesc at downtown São Paulo. The only thing I can recall from that time was how I left the cinema feeling a profound connection to humanity and history. Seven years later, I had the…
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Silicon Valley – Following the Pied Piper
As a fan of the HBO series Silicon Valley and seeing that a new season is soon to be released I recently found an interesting snippet, in a quite unusual source, that for me gave a whole new interpretation on the series as money being the shattering of social unity. …in the Germanic world, we…
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Film as sensory pleasure
We might winder why cinema, relying as it does on sounds and images, is not content with representing the sounds and images of a reproduced or invented reality. As I see it, this is because any art based on imitation (what the Greeks called mimesis) tries sooner or later to reproduce what is sensorily unavailable to…
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Você (não) é o criador do seu próprio mérito
Tem sido muito interessante acompanhar nas mídias nacionais e internacionais a repercussão da série do Netflix 3%. Discutindo entre alguns amigos e lendo as críticas nacionais a maior qualidade da série 3% tem aparentemente passado por alto apesar de ser o centro da mensagem e repetido de forma constante durante todos os episódios. Porque têm…
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Making-of Jeremias – Por trás do novo clipe do Gabriel Iglesias
Entender o processo de como um filme é feito é uma das melhores escolas para quem quer trabalhar na área, eu pessoalmente sempre aprendi muito lendo e assistindo aos making-of de outros diretores. Então aproveitando o lançamento do clipe Jeremias que o Gabriel Iglesias acaba de lançar no seu canal VEVO, resolvi compartilhar a enorme…
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A Brief History of Music Video
Lately I’ve been researching a lot about music videos and thought it might be interesting to post a small and incomplete history of the wonders of this medium. The objective of the post is to briefly outline its evolution and provide visual references to better comprehend where we are today. This is only an introduction…
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The Present
Gustav Schenk in his book containing images of a single drop of water Schöpfung aus dem Wassertropfen (Berlin 1954) conceptualized that you can study the universe by analyzing a single drop of water. The relation between both not being in the realm of space, but both sharing the same realm in time. Today in a…
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Some memorable moments from recent video games
Space Age – 2015 Matt Comi What if Interstellar was a 8 bit retro inspired sci-fi game? In Space Age you can find the answer and as a bonus have the best credit sequence in videogames! Valiant Hearts – 2014 Ubisoft In a more reflexive way you have one of the most heart touching endings…