But this fact also helps explain the film’s sometimesĭisconcerting heterogeneity: it boasts not only a vivid excursion into stop-motionĪnimation (Isabel Peppard’s Tim Burton-like Gloomy And why not? – it’s anĪnthology-as-curation concept, well-suited to contemporary tendencies in the Which were showcased, in one form or another, at Stranger with My Face). Pre-existing short films – some going as far back as 14 years (and several of Most omnibus projects commission their diverse parts from scratch, Dark Whispers is a collection of It seems! – and most other anthology films, and it's a difference discreetly unannounced in the final credits. However, there’s one big difference between Dark Whispers – only the first volume, There are ongoing online seminars and related presentations). There in 2012 – the festival event folded, for the time being, in 2017, but
Of screen culture from which, in part, the project emerged: Tasmania’s Stranger with My Face festival/workshop/competition devoted to generating horror projects by women (I was privileged to be a guest This hybrid concoction makes sense if one knows the exciting pocket Roles, such as writer Claire D’Este.) Plus: all of the directors areĪustralian. (There’s also plenty of women working in other cast or crew Genre (anthologies are legion in this field), and it’s entirely directed by Dark Whispers also has a dual focus: it’s a spotlight on the horror Mosaic, but it primarily exists to showcase the work of seven femaleįilmmakers, including Chantal Akerman and Valie Export. Seven Sins (1986), for instance, boasts a typical 7-deadly-sins narrative Ingenious and surprising, sometimes clumsy and obvious. Sometimes the conceit that binds the whole is Medium (opera in Aria, 1987), a place ( Paris vu par … in both 19), a political project ( Far from Vietnam, 1967) … Producers have used to cohere package-movies: around a theme ( Eros, 2004), an actor (Silvana Mangano
To quote Meat Loaf, two out of three ain’t bad). It’s hard to find one that hits top quality all the way through (usually, and History of cinema, and some outstanding exemplars (particularly from Italy, This kind of project has a semi-reputable place in the Tale, it takes about 3 seconds for the solitary hero, Clara (Andreaĭemetriades), to gaze at an old photo of her departed parents (she’s about toĬlean out their place) and feel a heavily audio-juiced chill … Switches (of both content and form) start right in just as, in the framing Get no chance for a slow-burn build: within some of the stories, the shocks or I was struck by the fact that – just like in Mary Harron’s The Expecting (2020) styled forīite-sized chunks on the quickly defunct Quibi format – the horror or frisson effects
DARK WHISPERS FEAT SERIES
Anthology/omnibus film: a series of short stories connected by a framingĭevice.
0 kommentar(er)
