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What Inspires Cinemalab?

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Comingled Containers dir. Stan Brakhage 1997
Kuleshov Effect
America
dir. Garrett Bradley
How a Mosquito Operates
dir. Winsor McCay
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
dir. Todd Haynes
Don't wait for a "good" camera. Make the film any way you can with whatever camera you can afford. Another example of a filmmaker not waiting: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story above, by a restless Todd Haynes. Be restless.
The Bit Player (trailer)
dir. Mark Levinson, DP Claudia Raschke
Lucas Blalock's Digital Toolkit | Art21 "New York Close Up"
1895-1908 Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance (highlights from the greatest movie pioneers' films)
Included in this compilation: 0:00 Georges Méliès 0:15 William K.L. Dickson, William Heise "Annabelle Serpentine Dance" (1 April 1895) 0:20 William K.L. Dickson "Serpentine Dance by Annabelle" (September 1896) 0:25 ? 0:29 ? 0:34 William Heise "Crissie Sheridan" (October 1897) 0:37 Alice Guy "Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter" (1899) 0:51 Louis Lumière "Danse Serpentine" (5 August 1897) 2:57 Segundo de Chomón "Création de la serpentine" (1908)
Make tests, make movies, tests become movies that become tests for later movies, and on and on and on . . .
The Gift of Room Tone - Criterion Collection
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - alternate transfer than above, in case you had trouble view that version.
Kelly Reichardt talks indie filmmaking I THE BEST SHOW with Tom Scharpling
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