Singapore International Film Festival 2025
Film as ART
by 24 frame
KEYWORDS: Slow Cinema Movement, Art house, Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ozu, Tokyo Story, Shot Length, Observational camera, Minimal use of Music, Sound Design, Plot
Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.
Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level READ
VIDEO ESSAYS on Film (curated by Film and Media Faculty)
HOW STORYTELLING BECOMES AN ART FORM THROUGH COMPOSITIONS AND EDITING by Cinema Cartography
How stories unfold can be seen in the way the the image is composed: "what should the viewer be looking at and how do we get them to look at it?"
KEYWORDS: Production, Cinematography, Frame within a frame, Converging lines
If there is one craft that defines cinema is the technique of editing: it lays the foundation of the film's pace and emotions including space and time.
KEYWORDS: Post-Production, Editor, Pace, Atmosphere, Compress time, Cutting on action, Time and space, Continuity editing, Soviet montage, Subliminal meaning, Transition, Translating emotions, Reaction shot
by Thomas Flight
KEYWORDS: Art History, Surrealism, German Expressionism, Horror, Lighting, Set, Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Film Noir
by The Cinema Cartography
KEYWORDS:
by Peter C. Davidson (a funny insights)
by Nerdwriter1
by Film & Media Studies with Jordoan Schonig
This video essay examines what Nicholas Rombes's calls the "double logic of digital cinema," an emerging trend toward realism in a medium that is often associated with fantasy. The video examines the Dogme 95 movement as well as the film Tangerine (Baker, 2015).
by CineFix
by Studio Binder