Pedro Costa has made digital works since the turn of the 21st Century due to a number of influences and philosophical premises. Through his 1997 film, Ossos (Bones), Costa shot on film and perfected a style of shadow and elision equal parts Bresson, Rivette, Ford and Tourneur. After working in the Li

Architectural, Beautiful , Bright, Collage, Contemplative, Egalitarian, Event, Experimental, Geometric, Gritty, Intimate, Joyful, Perceptual, Political, Quiet, Rhythmic, Rough, Severe, Spare, Spectral, Subtle

If Walter Ruttman had not been killed while making a newsreel on the frontlines of World War II, the history of film might have turned out differently. He made breathtakingly beautiful movies -- both animated and shot --that radically departed from the traditional narratives of contemporaries like Ch

Collage, Dense, German expressionist film, Perceptual, Pioneering, Rhythmic, Sophisticated

Collage, Czech silent-to-sound, Dense, Silence, Tense

In an Eisenstein film, loose, metaphorical associations displace narrative continuity: images related only by analogy cut up chronological sequences. Physical action is by turns slowed down to a grueling pace and sped up to a frenzy. In every respect, Sergei Eisenstein's films are challenging. And ye

Collage, Constructivist architecture, Epic, Pathos, Pioneering, Political, Soviet montage