Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center designed by Huson Jackson of Sert, Jackson and Associates, will include student workshops utilizing modern audio-visual techniques, large lecture halls, combined laboratory-classrooms, offices for instructors and an indoor-out-door snack bar. The exterior is designed in rising "steps" or "decks" so that the front of the building will gradually rise rather than present an imposing, flat facade...
FRIENDS, which was written, produced, and directed by former M.I.T. student Filippe Herba, is well worth seeing because it says a great deal about the good and bad points of student films. Students who get into films come from primarily two backgrounds-drama and visual studies-and a student's experience frequently determines the approach he will use in his film. Friend's shows the director's clear talent as a photographer, but emphasizes the visual aspects of the film at the expense of its theatrical aspects. The weak script is almost used as an excuse for using the camera...
This technical and visual success is hampered by the director's failure to direct the acting adequately. The film's drama lacks any real vitality. The dialogue is particularly weak and is given a sterile interpretation...
...Friends signals the contemporary student filmmaker's interest in novel visual interpretation, but underscores their need to-acquire a sense of theater as well...
...especially illuminating. His extremely strong, even deterministic way of shooting people's actions had always outweighed the romantic and sentimental conception of personality beneath his plots. The addition of an obsession with murder to a desperate love in Moonrise (1948) let his character material live up to his visual treatment of personality, and vielded a work of astonishing solidity, power, and integration. The same happened in other directors' works because the neurotic conception of character gave motivation a clarity it had lacked. The motives of a character could at last be described in terms of setting, objects, camera motions. Character...