Death of a Chinese Clown (2016) by Jaime Cleeland (10.04 minutes)
More of an experimental succession of extreme images that an actual film, “Death of a Chinese Clown” was shot in Xuchang, China with the purpose of showing that underground cinema can be made in the country.
In that fashion, the short shows a clown in different settings. First him dancing, walking, and riding a bike in a park, then him dancing half-naked, including a swinging penis, wearing garter belts, and then assaulting a girl. All the while, extremely colored images and minor visual effects appear on screen, inducing the film with a sense of disorientation and even danger, that is heightened even more by the noise music that plays throughout, as the film actually function as a music video.
Although quite difficult to make a critique of the film, Cleeland shows much promise in portraying extreme images in extreme fashion, and...
More of an experimental succession of extreme images that an actual film, “Death of a Chinese Clown” was shot in Xuchang, China with the purpose of showing that underground cinema can be made in the country.
In that fashion, the short shows a clown in different settings. First him dancing, walking, and riding a bike in a park, then him dancing half-naked, including a swinging penis, wearing garter belts, and then assaulting a girl. All the while, extremely colored images and minor visual effects appear on screen, inducing the film with a sense of disorientation and even danger, that is heightened even more by the noise music that plays throughout, as the film actually function as a music video.
Although quite difficult to make a critique of the film, Cleeland shows much promise in portraying extreme images in extreme fashion, and...
- 7/17/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Chandradeep Das, son of veteran director Anjan Das, shot this Bengali short in collaboration with Bhavana Goparaju, Nikita Ivanenko (producers) and Rinat Yulushev (associate producer), as the kickstart of Wintry Candles Pproductions, whose purpose is to take their multicultural stories to the global stage.
The film revolves around an elderly woman, whose attachment to the past and particularly her dead husband has led her outside of society and into becoming a nagging old lady who constantly fights with her maid and her neighbors, a woman and a little child who occasionally plays in the shared corridor in the building. The kids in the neighborhood pester her, throwing rocks and breaking her windows any chance they get, with her barely managing to control her nerves. As she considers herself already dead, when she receives a large sum from her husband’s insurance, she spends all of it in building a tomb...
The film revolves around an elderly woman, whose attachment to the past and particularly her dead husband has led her outside of society and into becoming a nagging old lady who constantly fights with her maid and her neighbors, a woman and a little child who occasionally plays in the shared corridor in the building. The kids in the neighborhood pester her, throwing rocks and breaking her windows any chance they get, with her barely managing to control her nerves. As she considers herself already dead, when she receives a large sum from her husband’s insurance, she spends all of it in building a tomb...
- 4/8/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
They stay with a film for months on end, but you never find an editor's name on a film poster or in a promo? Editors in Bollywood rue that they are not only badly paid and unrecognised but also face competition from untrained hands and computerised equipment.'Editors don't get recognition. Their names are not put on the posters. A music director or a lyricist only contributes to 20 to 25 minutes of a film, but their names are on the posters,' Shirish Kunder, who edited hits like 'Om Shanti Om' and 'Main Hoon Na', told us.'An editor's work is no less than that of a cinematographer. A cinematographer works for about 70 days of the shooting, an editor works for five to six months. But for some strange reason editors are not considered important enough,' he said.Suresh Pai, who worked on 'Page 3...
- 4/5/2011
- Filmicafe
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