Alexander Polybinsky, playwright, psychologist, researcher of the psychology of creativity. Psychology of conflict in film drama Popular film drama manuals are increasingly looking like a mathematics reference book. The main beats are already indicated on the script timeline: call to adventure at 15 minutes, first turning beat at 30, and second one — at half an[…]
By Alexander Polybinsky, playwright, psychologist, creative psychology researcher. There is my favorite passage in the book Catching the Big Fish by the great American director David Lynch: One day I went to a psychotherapist. There were events in my life that for some time began to repeat regularly, and I decided: “That’s it, I need[…]
We are quite far from defending the thesis of the benefits or harms of censorship. It would be an oversimplification to blame or praise it today. The idea of ethical and legal (political) censorship is the first thing people usually think of. Our task is to classify censorship according to its obviousness to the subject,[…]
As it is well known, cinema was invented in the Celestial Empire, and it was only technically upgraded in Paris … BRIEF HISTORY Today, when we talk about national cinema or its national characteristics, we should take into account that Chinese cinema in its history has not been isolated from external cultural influences. Domestic-oriented film[…]
Where does the eternal youth of good old cinema come from? Cinema is one of the few arts that can fit into the mall model economy and remain autonomous. Films are becoming obsolete, but cinema manages to remain up-to-date for the time being. Many researchers consider cinema, especially its depiction of the anthropocene, to be[…]
The maximum length of a short film for the Cannes Court Metrage is 15 minutes (including the end credits). Accordingly, if your film is 16 minutes long, you will no longer be included in the Cannes Competition. For this reason, the Short Film Corner is available Out of Competition. What is the ideal length for a[…]
Even the totalitarian architecture of a cinema hall fails to convince the viewer that cinema is capable of representing topicality. The requirement to turn off cell phones saves the situation. Sometimes. Let’s talk about short forms that can compete with the “big cinema” and draw the viewer’s attention from the big screen to the mobile.[…]
One year before the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film mankind faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2022 the world entered another turbulent phase. The characters try to find common ground in Stanley Kubrick’s political anti-war satire. The threat of nuclear catastrophe pushes them to do it. It could happen any minute. But it turns out that[…]
Are the stories, the short videos that are gaining millions of views, a new form of cinema? Or is it not cinema at all? Can we say that cinema is a thing of the past? Will cinema soon take the place of a subculture somewhere alongside anime? What place do short films have in this[…]
Does it really seem that the issues of independent cinema are no longer relevant and are already in the past? Is filmmaking turning into the destiny of balding veterans? Information and media trends are changing very fast in the world. Teenagers hardly use Facebook or Twitter anymore. Instagram is getting older, too. The same thing[…]
… according to the titles of the short films Hello, everyone. This time we’re going to talk about movie titles. What are the typical names authors choose for their short films? What words do filmmakers choose? Are there any patterns? So we took ten and a half thousand short film titles that have been submitted to[…]
This article presents our DJ set, a variation on the theme of platitudes about cinematography in academic papers. Thank you for your attention! Allegro: Cinema and Technology As it is known, cinema was born because of the progress of science and technology, but at the same time, it is the result of the centuries-old development[…]
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the[…]