Mind Theater

Mind Theater

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Mind Theater episodes

  • How the Reluctant Bride Captures Female Discontent | Video Essay
    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/Um5s1yAO02A

    Exploring Wong Kar-wai's moody, intimate style and how it grabs hold of our senses.

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    Music:
    "Now is the Time to Leave," August Whilhelmsson
    "Her Eyes the Stars," Patrik Berg Almkvisth, LUCHS
    "Night Arr. For Cello and Felt Piano," Limelight Glow
    "The Inventor," David Celeste
    "Middle School," Blue Wednesday

    Sources/References:

    • https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1866-toulmouche-hesitant-fiancee/
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/style/auguste-toulmouche-hesitant-fiancee-tiktok.html
    • https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=403&sold=1
    • https://anthropology-of-weddings.org.uk/athens-greece-wedding-symbols/#:~:text=Wedding%20wreaths%20also%20refer%20to,of%20the%20wreaths%20tightly%20together.
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    11 min
  • Wong Kar-wai's Mood | The Directors Project

    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/gM4b5_h_PgU

    Exploring Wong Kar-wai's moody, intimate style and how it grabs hold of our senses.

    Links:
    Website: https://solo.to/mindtheater
    Patreon: https://patreon.com/mindtheater

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/mindtheaterpod
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindtheaterpod/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mindtheater

    Music:
    Waltz of the Moscow Strings, Rafael KRux
    The Hidden Library, Joshua Kyan Aalampour
    Yumeji's Thheme, Shigeru Umebayashi
    Bloom, Blue Wednesday & Shopan

    Sources/References:

    • https://theconversation.com/a-cinema-of-intimacy-the-enduring-beauty-of-wong-kar-wai-170217
    • https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/watch-30-minute-making-of-documentary-on-in-the-mood-for-love-plus-new-the-grandmaster-featurette-94632/
    • https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/article/3084877/how-wong-kar-wais-mood-love-became-modern-masterpiece-20-years
    • https://niceasheck.com/blogs/news/exploring-the-visual-poetry-of-wong-kar-wais-films#:~:text=What%20sets%20song%20%20Kar%Wai,memory%20with%20a%20melancholic%20tone.
    • https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/52956/1/in-the-mood-for-love-remains-a-spellbinding-introduction-to-wong-kar-wai
    • https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3190104/what-they-said-about-mood-love-director-wong-kar-wai-and
    • https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2010/cteq/in-the-mood-for-love/
    • https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wong-kar-wai-masterpiece-in-the-mood-for-love/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677Gb9D5Vjc


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    11 min
  • Support Mind Theater on Patreon
    Mind Theater is a video essay series analyzing works of TV, Film, Media, and the Arts revealing what makes them so compelling. Join my patreon to show your support for only $3 a month. Videos release around monthly on YouTube

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    Music:
    'Toofpick', Blue Wednesday
    'Dusk', Blue Wednesday

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    3 min
  • Understanding Poetry: Richard Siken | Video Essay
    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/Y0gwY04s1WA

    Analyzing the lyrical alchemy of Richard Siken's mystifying and heartfelt poetry.

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    Music:
    'Cylinder Two', Chris Zabriskie
    'A Fond Farewell', David Celeste

    Blue Dot Sessions: https://sessions.blue/
    Rainday Textile

    Sources/References:

    • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-siken
    • https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/war-of-the-foxes-by-richard-siken/
    • https://poets.org/book/war-foxes
    • https://30northblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/review-of-war-of-the-foxes-by-richard-siken/
    • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363140793_On_the_Relationship_Between_Poetry_and_Painting_from_the_Perspective_of_Chinese_and_Western_Culture
    • https://www.jstor.org/stable/868190?typeAccessWorkflow=login
    • https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-9/doomchin/
    • https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=urj
    • https://poets.org/text/how-read-poem-0
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6OA3QBRLM
    • https://www.songtell.com/richard-siken/turpentine
    • https://tinhouse.com/the-doubling-of-self-an-interview-with-richard-siken/
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    13 min
  • Celine Sciamma’s Gaze | The Directors Project
    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/FfyVq8ar_H8

    Exploring the similarities between filmmaking and art curation, historical french female painters, and the queer cinematic gaze in Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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    Music:
    Blue Dot Sessions: https://sessions.blue/
    Etude 11 Charles

    Other Music
    "The Lowest", Martin Gauffin
    "Dusk, Blue Wednesday

    Sources/References:

    • https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/2/73
    • https://smarthistory.org/royal-academy-france/
    • https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/international-womens-day-elisabeth-louise-vigee-le-brun
    • https://www.rogerebert.com/features/book-excerpt-portraits-of-resistance-the-cinema-of-c%C3%A9line-sciamma\
    • https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7084-the-brush-behind-the-film-how-painter-hlne-delmaire-created-our-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-cover#:~:text=Art%20speaks%20volumes%20in,thanks%20to%20painter%20H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%20Delmaire
    • https://www.slashfilm.com/1161765/creating-the-titular-paintings-for-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-was-a-massive-undertaking/
    • http://unpolishedmagazine.com/helene-delmaire-painting-the-loss-of-the-ego/
    • https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%C3%89lisabeth-vig%C3%A9e-le-brun/m02q0w
    • https://www.theartstory.org/artist/vigee-le-brun-elisabeth-louise/
    • https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-scandalous-portraits-of-%C3%A9lisabeth-louise-vig%C3%A9e-le-brun/ZAICJhgvKCCoLw
    • https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/story-behind-the-four-seasons-by-vivaldi
    • https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-ending-explained
    • https://www.filmcomment.com/article/interview-celine-sciamma-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/
    • https://cdimatteo.com/italian/sonnets-vivaldi-four-seasons/
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    12 min
  • How Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Exposes America | Video Essay
    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/HJGeWIB9_OM

    Exploring how Colson Whitehead's Depiction of 1960s Harlem Exposes America's Foundational Crookedness

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    Music:
    Blue Dot Sessions: https://sessions.blue/
    Single Still
    Rainday Textile
    Cran Ras
    Some Nights End

    Sources/References:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/books/colson-whitehead-harlem-shuffle.html
    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n24/mendez/did-he-leap
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/colson-whitehead-harlem-shuffle/619821/
    https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/crime-in-oliver-twist

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    9 min
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Dual Mastery | The Directors Project
    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/jaZefs91fSM

    Exploring Hitchcock's groundbreaking work in both the silent film and early talkie mediums

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    Music:
    Blue Dot Sessions: https://sessions.blue/
    Gatheris Stasis
    Etude 3 Chessanta
    Etude 12 Taminy

    Other:

    Non-copyright Vintage Jazz and Ragtime Music
    No Name Jive - Glen Gray
    Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C (DIssonance), Mov. I, K. 465
    Gloomy Sunday Instrumental Piano
    Borodin's String Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Mov. IV

    Sources/References:

    • https://us.ukessays.com/essays/film-studies/alfred-hitchcocks-use-of-sound-film-studies-essay.php
    • http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/hitch/tour2.html
    • https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/sep/21/the-talkies-silent-film-british-cinema-alfred-hitchcock
    • https://vimeo.com/431937966#art
    • https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-british-silent-films
    • http://www.londonssilentcinemas.com/history/
    • https://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/19/the-10-best-silent-film-posters/
    • https://lonelybrand.com/blog/picture-palaces-of-the-silent-film-era/
    • https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/beginners-guide-to-alfred-hitchcock-the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog-1927
    • https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/hitchcock-9-why-people-talking-about-silent-movies
    • https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/871-blackmail#:~:text=Hitchcock%20shot%20the%20film%20in,RCA%20equipment%20imported%20from%20America
    • https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/harvard-film-archive-to-screen-hitchcocks-silent-era-films/#:~:text=GAZETTE%3A%20In%20a%20series%20of,he%20think%20talking%20pictures%20missed%3F
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDVATU7-yuw
    • http://www.historyoffilm.net/movie-eras/silent-black-and-white-movies/
    • https://www.jstor.
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    15 min
  • How Soviet Space Art Changed Everything | Video Essay

    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/crVJMH7z1z0

    Exploring the cosmic visions of the USSR through its space and retro futuristic artwork

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    Sebring
    Dognell
    Burham Street

    Sources/References:

    • Aleksandra Sanʹkova, and Moskovskiĭ Muzeĭ Dizaĭna (Russia. Soviet Space Graphics : Cosmic Visions from the USSR. London, Phaidon Press Limited, 2020.
    • https://comradekiev.com/blog/cosmonauts-and-communism-soviet-propaganda-posters-and-the-space-race/
    • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210426-how-the-space-race-changed-soviet-art
    • https://www.marxist.com/the-role-of-the-state-in-the-space-race.htm
    • https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-space-graphics
    • https://comradekiev.com/blog/ten-must-read-books-on-soviet-art-design-and-culture/
    • https://daily.jstor.org/the-birth-of-the-soviet-union-and-the-death-of-the-russian-revolution
    • https://hero-magazine.com/article/169502/soviet-space-graphics
    • https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/book_report/educate-encourage-dream-popular-science-in-the-soviet-space-age-56390
    • https://www.thecollector.com/russian-revolution-in-5-great-paintings/
    • https://www.rbth.com/arts/333753-soviet-artists-need-know
    • https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/art-in-the-land-of-soviets/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-PfLRyvxI
    • https://www.rbth.com/arts/332595-aesthetic-soviet-art
    • https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/soviet-space-posters/
    • https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tekinkia-molodezhi-russian-sci-fi-barbican-into-the-unknown-160517
    • https://neverwasmag.com/2020/02/the-art-of-andrei-sokolov/
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    11 min
  • Barry Jenkins' Love | The Directors Project

    Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/A3zzYBTjZMM

    Exploring Barry Jenkins' love through color and lighting in Moonlight and Beale Street

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    Sebring
    Dognell
    Burham Street

    Sources/References:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP0ZbueIaks&list=PLfgAd5NFB64v2cwDgC9EK9yTEJ9BdGztc&index=1
    • https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A584329726&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=416a3102
    • https://indiefilmhustle.com/ultimate-guide-to-barry-jenkins-and-his-directing-techniques/
    • https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/dpdfilm/chapter/moonlight-2016/
    • https://www.polygon.com/22510959/barry-jenkins-films
    • https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/21/its-lit-how-film-finally-learned-how-to-light-black-skin
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17VKpoLJUbA


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    8 min

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