Word: visuality
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...Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...
...diner, a woman seen dressing in a high window, a fellow waiting for customers in the ticket booth of a 24-hr. theater. The most elaborate intro assembled nearly 30 musicians on pieces of a bandstand assembled by workmen and coming together to create a sumptuous aural-visual orchestration. It's as if the network wants to re-create the aura of a movie palace in the viewers' home. That they've done...
...leaves behind the studio as his primary place of production. He breaks conventional perceptions of objects and space by placing them in direct, unexpected conversations with one another. Continuing on the avant-garde trajectory of post-studio practice, Bader works on the belief that anything that is visual can be qualified as art. His 2007 installation, “as = poaching the poachers” at New York’s Rivington Arms, for example, consisted of objects like the ones listed above placed next to each other without an immediately apparent pattern. It explored and challenged the binary relationship...
...technical director for more than 20 productions on campus.In recognition of her extensive work, Laubacher, who is also a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and co-founder of the Harvard Stage Designers’ Collective, has been awarded the OFA’s Council Prize in Visual Arts and the first Alan Symonds Memorial Award for work in technical theater. “It’s exciting to have set design called a visual art form, because there’s a way in which theater is thought of as performance based even though it?...
...quite express as comfortably,” he says. Haney cast up-and-comer Nicole Beharie as female protagonist Dee Roberts. Joining Beharie in the film are veteran actors like Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, and Charles Dutton.The 2000 U.S. presidential election constitutes both the political and visual subtexts of the storyline, with frequent shots of the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore ’69 spliced into the film. Not only does this maintain the historical accuracy of the story, it also reveals a disturbing layer of irony in campaign rhetoric...