Where can I find the inspiration for the creation of film works? What should I do if I don't have the inspiration for the professional film works? Close to the natural light, today we have compiled a list of films that can be read while eating: ten carefully selected niche art films! The reason why we choose niche art films is that, like the creation of our art works collection, art creation is the fundamental purpose in art films. We can choose various themes, novel concepts, and superb techniques to integrate everything in order to convey our real strength as creators!
However, we also know that the hearts of artists are profound, and art films are often "difficult to understand". But today, the ten selected by Natural Light are relatively new, easy to download, and the story is relatively easy to understand, so you can feel free to choose and enjoy watching (learning)!
Suzhou Creek
2000 Lou Ye
The first film is also a classic of Chinese literary and artistic films - Suzhou Creek. This film gives us a different visual impact. The director Lou Ye pursues restoration. The grainy film, the shaking lens, and the most natural state of the actors are all helping us understand the most real emotional state in the work.
The film is about a pair of lovers, Ma Ma and Peony, on the Suzhou River in Shanghai. Because Ma Ma's financial obsession frustrated Peony, they decided to jump into the Suzhou River to kill themselves. Five years later, Ma Ma, who regretted her behavior, met Meimei. Ma Ma decided that she was a peony, but Meimei was just another infatuated woman.
The authenticity and durability of love is a topic that we often discuss in our art works on love. This film is not about telling us the solution, but about hoping to discuss with us everyone's most real expectations for pure feelings.
The 1st Chinese Film Media Award Top Ten Chinese Films of the Year.
Highlight: Rivers, buildings and cities that are always there are the best witnesses of the story.
The Great Phantom
1937 Jean Renoir
This is the representative work of poetic realism, the most brilliant genre in the history of French literary and artistic films, and it is also an academic school Studying abroad in film major One of the required teaching films. In addition, the father of director Jean Renoir is Auguste Renoir, an impressionist painter we are familiar with.
This film is set in the First World War and tells the story of three French prisoners escaping from prison in a German concentration camp. In the face of the cruel war, he took an extremely ordinary incident as the starting point. This is also the realistic creation concept that the director has always adhered to - "the more common the subject matter, the greater the creation space".
Best Picture of the 11th Academy Awards
Best International Film of the 5th Venice Film Festival
Highlight: Create classics from ordinary
Magic Moment
2008 Sangu Xingxi
"Live with the attitude of making movies, and make a movie with life" is a sentence in the film, but it is a good summary of this film. This film is also a rare comic theme in literary and artistic films. It tells about a gangster brother who was killed because he had an affair with "sister-in-law". In the process of fleeing, he suddenly came up with a clever idea and pretended to be a director who was preparing to make gangster movies, so he began his nervous and exciting shooting journey.
The director uses his crazy imagination and sense of humor to wrap up wonderful stories. The stories reflect unexpected conflicts and visual contrast, and also hope to make everyone feel after laughing - real life may be far more exciting than the film.
The 32nd Japan Film Academy Award for Best Film
Best Director of the 32nd Japan Film Academy Award
Best Actress of the 3rd Asian Film Awards
Highlight: an art film that you can enjoy watching
《Lars and the Real Girl》
2007 Craig Grispe
At the beginning of the film, we were told: "How does God let us avoid loneliness? -- Love each other." Loneliness is always the best subject in works of art. The protagonist of this film is Lars (Ryan Gosling!). He is a lonely house man. Although he is 27 years old physically, he still feels that his heart is still in his childhood.
So he chose an adult toy - inflatable doll. As a way to accompany himself, he would talk with "her", take her to the dance, go to church to pray, sing in the playground when he was a child, and regard "her" as his important other half.
This is a fairy tale in the adult world. In fact, it discusses how to learn to accept the society and be accepted by the society through your own way when one's psychological age cannot keep up with the growth rate of physical age. In short, it is a warm literary film that makes you think~
Best Original Script of the 80th Academy Awards
The 65th Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Music/Comedy
Highlight: Warm adult fairy tales
Queen Margo
1994 Patrice Xiahou
This film is adapted from Alexandre Dumas' famous literary work of the same name. The story is that France was in the "Huguenot War" period in the 16th century, with constant internal and external troubles, but the palace was also luxurious and lustful. In order to pacify the civil war, the French court decided to marry Princess Margaret to the leader of the Protestants, Na. The story happened on the wedding night
In France at the end of the 16th century, when the Renaissance was rising, the artistic style began to revive and regenerate from the long dark age of the Middle Ages. The whole film is very sophisticated in terms of pictures, character modeling and plot contradictory portrayal, just like a painting scroll with exquisite and dignified Baroque style, which perfectly presents the important era in the art history at that time.
In addition, the costume design in the film is very exquisite. At present, retro fashion is prevailing in the fashion industry. Students may also find some inspiration for the creation of film works.
Best Costume Design of the 67th Academy Awards
Palme d'Or at the 47th Cannes Film Festival
The 49th British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Highlight: Medieval art history wrapped in Chinese clothing
Psychological Game
2004 Tang Qian Zhengming
This is an animated film that is not suitable for children to watch. In addition to the complicated plot that is difficult to understand, the picture of the film is also composed of many vivid visual wonders. The film is about a rainy night, when the young cartoonist met his first love, but he had a fiance at the time of his first love. In the follow-up communication process of the three, they all died unexpectedly. But they all regret that life is not perfect, and they are determined to revive again, but they accidentally got into the belly of the whale, and finally broke through in the predicament to reach the way they want to change.
Such fantastic imagination combined with complicated detailed narration shows the superb editing skills and hand painting skills of the film creators. We can also see from the screenshot below that the style of the film is very distinctive, and every frame looks like a very mature illustration work.
In addition, the film also hopes to convey a very positive energy point of view through the expression of this stream of consciousness. Even if life returns to the beginning, we still need to participate in it with enthusiasm and strive to live our own way.
Highlight: probably the most "dream" like movie ever made
Awakening of Spring
2006 Alexander Petrov
It is also a very different animated film. Alexander Petrov is both a director and a famous Russian painter. The whole film is directly painted on the glass with his fingertips as a brush and paint, using different layers of glass to produce characters on one layer and background on the other, The light penetrates layer by layer to form a frame of dynamic pictures. The whole movie will make people sigh that the original animation can be so poetic and dreamlike.
The story background of the film is set in a small Russian town at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist is a 16-year-old boy who is beginning to fall in love. He is crazy about the mysterious woman living next door, while his maid secretly loves him. The maidservant's love is ordinary, while the teenager's love is obsession. As the story progresses slowly, people's feelings begin to become complex, and the first love goes with the wind.
The whole movie is only 27 minutes long. The gorgeous pictures, simple story characters and complex feelings need to be deeply understood. The director's delicate handling of the emotional theme of love in color, brushwork, light, etc. is also worth learning.
Best Animated Short Film of the 80th Academy Awards
Highlight: the visual expression of sweet and sour "first love"
The Night of Comet
2013 James Ward Bookett
Recently, science fiction films have been pushed to the forefront. This film is also a very special science fiction film. It has no special visual effects or even a well-known actor. Relying only on fascinating scripts and the actors' excellent lines, it has become a representative of low-cost science fiction films and is in the list recommendation of Douban Top 250.
On the day when the story happened, a comet approached the earth. Eight friends started a dinner party that night. Everyone talked to each other and told the recent situation. Although there were many strange clues in the words, they did not attract people's attention. However, after the sudden power failure, all interpersonal relationships and even the world order began to change dramatically. It is an increasingly wonderful film.
The author sets and grasps suspense, integrating various types of elements such as science fiction, suspense and indoor psychodrama. It leads the audience to shock and fear the unknown dimensions. At the end, it sublimates the discussion of human nature from the science fiction theme. It is a science fiction film that will be far beyond everyone's imagination.
The 24th Gotham Independent Film Award
The 1st Annual List of Douban Films Most Concerned Films
Highlight: Let you jump out of the world or even out of yourself to think about some more profound topics
And then? Tell me
2013 Ruojin Pinto
This is an artistic film in the form of documentary. The director, protagonist and screenwriter are all one person - Ruo Ah Jin Pinto, he is an AIDS patient. When he knew that his life was running out, he decided to start recalling the past, visiting his friends and past life.
The whole movie is poetic and plain like a diary. Usually in despair, people will carry out some profound reflection, and this reflection director also runs through the whole movie in the form of monologue. Through his thinking, despair, life and struggle, we can observe the complexity and richness of people's hearts.
But the film is not as sad and depressing as we imagined. In addition to the main character, there are four cats and dogs, gay lovers, old friends, and mothers in the film. They all accompany the main character with a very warm way of getting along, and the excellent soundtrack and color in the film also emphasize the warm atmosphere.
Highlight: discuss eternal art topics such as love, death, homosexuality and life in the most delicate way
Panic
2012 Curled Sichuan Solid Flower
This film is adapted from the cartoon of the same name by the cartoonist Kyoko Okazaki, which tells the story of a girl who had a low self-esteem in her original life and experienced a fantastic life after undergoing a high-risk full body plastic surgery.
The director of the film is the Japanese photography master Kunkawa Shihua. Most of her photography works are colorful and pursue candy like feminine color. This film is also full of her personal style.
In addition to the gorgeous pictures, the absurdity and decadence shown in the film, as well as the exploration of people's most primitive desire - the pursuit of beauty, will also cause people to think.
Nomination for the best art director of the 31st Japan Film Academy Award
Nomination for Best Art Director of the Second Asian Film Awards
Highlight: Each frame of Kasi is a fashion blockbuster
How to find the creative inspiration of film works? Today's art study abroad Portfolio training The agency Natural Light has recommended these 10 niche art films to everyone, hoping to help you create your professional film collection. Film is the most comprehensive form of art. It is the artistic work of the entire creative team. Everyone contributes their own aesthetic, professional skills and artistic cognition in it. In order to create another world in the screen for us, just because the world in art film is pure and real, our students can try to escape their own lives more in the creation process, Look at other people's stories and find different inspirations from the third perspective!
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