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December 18, 2023Mind Theater Video Essays on YouTube | Closing the Podcast Chapter Watch Mind Theater Video Essays Here: https://www.youtube.com/@mindtheater
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...more December 11, 2023How 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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...more November 27, 2023Wong 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.
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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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...more October 30, 2023Support 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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'Toofpick', Blue Wednesday
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...more October 23, 2023Understanding 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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...more September 25, 2023Celine 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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...more September 04, 2023How 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/
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...more July 17, 2023Alfred 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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...more June 12, 2023How 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 artworkLinks:
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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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...more May 22, 2023Barry Jenkins' Love | The Directors Project Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/A3zzYBTjZMM
Exploring Barry Jenkins' love through color and lighting in Moonlight and Beale StreetLinks:
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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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