Word: zooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They enter a bar: the two men sit in flat two-shot, separated and complementary (Antonio in dark grey sitting higher, the doctor in white below and slightly to the front); but this personal relation is transformed by a slow zoom into Antonio, who is speaking to the audience about Lampeiro, the greatest of all cangaceiros, whom Antonio killed in 1938. "Lampeiro was my mirror," declares Antonio: "in him I saw myself." This speech exactly balances the cangaceiro's from the preceding sequence, just as the parades mirror each other; even the two men's speeches say the same thing...
...habits separate from all other entities. He consistently frames his subjects in the center of the shot, frequently underlining this centering with iris-shots and the inner frames of doors and windows. Thus the content of each frame prevents a single entity: the boy swinging alone in a tree (zoom slowly out to long shot, then iris in on him), a group of hunters crossing the field as in a period painting, the teacher and his pupil as a single relationship, Itard writing by his window, Itard and boy housekeeper who together immediately form a family grouping. Each shot presents...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...sees that things get done. He is in Nixon's office so often, says an associate, that "he's usually trying to get out at the same time everyone else is trying to get in." Haldeman runs his staff meetings tightly?"I bang 'em through hard and fast, I zoom 'em past" ?and he is the only Nixon man who has no schedule of his own. His is shaped entirely by Nixon...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...