CATPC the artists from the plantation is a contemporary artwork located at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) by Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), Baloji and Renzo Martens. It is a social comment on how today’s art world deals with economic inequality by films, drawings or projects, which temporarily eliminate that inequality and than shows it off in fancy art galleries. The location of the film is Leverville in the Congo, which is a former Unilever plantation their first one. Established in 1911 Unilever they confiscated the whole area, where many natural palm trees grew, for decades palm oil faming has been violently imposed in the plantation zones by distant shareholders, the plantation workers earn some money but …show more content…
The film than transitions to a bright fire orange background covered in the centre by a hut created out of dead leaves on the top of the hut there is a large round tangerine coloured traditional mask which is traditionally used to ensure a good crop harvest, deep green leaves surround the hut divided in the middle by a dirt path. A young girl stands on the path wearing a grass skirt while holding a machete with purple mist taking over the screen. Than the scene dramatically zooms in on a chocolate sculpture of a head, which is than slashed at by the machete until it crumbles into pieces, the girl than eats the chocolate and the scene than zooms in on the girl smiling. This is meant to show the transitions of the plantation from a place where people lived in slums, crumbling houses and died for a meagre $20 a month pay check to a place where those same plantation workers create clay sculptures which are reproduced in cocoa than sold to help this community and others like …show more content…
It than suddenly cuts to the lower half of a woman in a blood red one piece outfit with her arms by her side in one hand she is holding a rustic white statue of half a man on a mantle, which than shifts to the woman’s face which than quickly zooms out to present her in the centre of the scene standing in front of leave covered wall with a heart shaped symbol in the middle which is meant to represent a bunch of cocoa, with orange smoke blowing out from behind the woman. The scene quickly changes to show a woman in a white crop top and skirt with a futuristic head set on, the white clothes represent spirituality and serenity which is juxtaposed with the concept of the futuristic head set which symbolises the ore coltan which is used in phones, computers, camera’s and plasma TV’s, coltan also leads to brutal wars in Africa. The scene quickly shifts to the woman in the blood red one piece licking the back of the chocolate statue, which than switches back to the woman in the white clothes sitting on a bright orange mat surrounded by cocoa nuts with light purple smoke emerging from the
Split screen techniques divide the screen into three equal proportions creating a simultaneous depiction of Lola, Manni and the clock, allowing Tykwer to show the struggle to beat time. Adding to the dramatic urgency and reinforcing the power of time is the virtual real time of the film, meaning the twenty minutes of Lola’s life are shown in virtually twenty minutes of screen time. Hence, the distinctively visual provides an insightful image into Lola’s experiences placed under seize by the adamant nature of time.
The film techniques used in this film changes the entire landscape and changes the mood during the scene. The colour reflects on a charters feelings and the camera angles and
The theme of this video is about human will be devoured by their own greed. The main character of the short film is the girl and the creepy smiling pencil. It is shooting from the third person omniscient point of view. In the short film, we can notice the girl’s illusion about her own desire to goods before she draws it. When she achieves one object that comes from her drawing, there is a shadowy object drift across the frame. The shadowy object is her future desire.
To begin the scene begins with a view of the mural and then cuts to a canted angle of Bud/David and Mr Johnson indicating that they have done something that is deemed wrong in
The long take begins with an alarm clock waking up a couple, sleeping out on their balcony. As the camera moves from window to window around the courtyard, we see a few brief snippets of characters’ lives. And finally, the audience sees inside the apartment that has been its point of view all along. Mise-en-scene, framing, and cinematography
At the beginning of the film, it is shown how Molly's family hunt for food and use their bush skills in their culture,
The opening sequence of the film introduces and defines the genre ("a filmed essay in human geography") and the setting ("a sterile and inhospitable area" in Spain). The expedition begins in Alberca with the watching of a "strange and barbaric ceremony." Once the people of the town are "drunk with wine," the expedition continues to an uninhibited monastery. Afterwards, we move on to the first village of Las Hurdes, where numerous young girls eat bread dipped in the water of a small stream. At the local school, "starving" children study geometry and educational moral lessons. Arriving in another village, the expedition meets a "choir of idiots" and then finds a young girl ill in the street. Land Without Bread then surveys the Hurdanos' diet of potatoes, beans, pork, and honey. The scene where a goat falls off a mountain and a donkey is covered and killed by bees is staged unbeknownst to the viewer. A short-lived essay on mosquitoes and malaria leads into a portion on illness and dwarfism, caused "by hunger, by lack of hygiene, and by incest.". As the camera pans across some graves marked with crosses, we hear that, "despite the great misery of the Hurdanos, their moral and religious ideas are the same as in other parts of the world." We tour a "luxurious" church before visiting the inside of a Hurdano home. As the family prepares for bed, an elderly woman walks the darkened streets, chanting of death. The expedition abruptly ends.
The equipment was very cumbersome and color consultants were necessary to ensure accurate tones and hues as directed by Selznick. (Dunagan, 2001). Selznick was very innovative with the use of shadows and silhouettes, which he uses in several scenes of the film. Selznick’s use of silhouettes in both the opening scene and the scene prior to intermission are very dramatic as they arouse emotion on the part of the audience. However, the emotions they evoked are very different. In the opening scene, the silhouette of Scarlett and her father, Gerald the audience can feel the love that Gerald has for his daughter as he illuminates his love for the land and how she will understand as she get older. The audience can almost feel the picturesque beauty of the land before them, as the sun is setting and Scarlett and Gerald in silhouettes. The second scene where Selznick uses silhouettes is directly prior to the intermission of the film. However, the emotions here are far different. Scarlett has journeyed to Tara, from the recently Yankee occupied Atlanta, with Melanie and her newborn son and Prissy. She has encountered nothing but death and destruction on her voyage. War beaten Scarlett returns to her home Tara only to find her home, ravaged, her sisters ailing, her mother dead, her father mad and the plantation lacking food since Tara was used as Yankee
The elements of cinematography in the film include a low angle shot looking up at the farmer as he chops wood at the beginning of the scene. The shot is preceded by the infamous extreme long shot of the military convoy. The director uses close ups to capture emotions throughout the entire opening scene. Fear in the faces of the farmer’s daughters as they come face to face with the Jew Hunter. Fear in the face of the farmer when he prepares himself as the military convoy approaches. Close ups are used at the table when the confrontation looms; the camera zooms in when the farmer begins to crack under the
Though the viewers focus first on the centered figures, it is easier to first analyze the surrounding settings to understand them. The stone wall foreground and the open fields of the background each embodies one of the girl’s thoughts. The back landscape is filled with warm, airy colors of blue and orange, as if it were under a bright sun. On the other hand, the foreground’s stone walls and concrete floor has dark, cold, shadowy, earthy colors that seem to appear as if under a stormy cloud. The sunny land suggests free, pure, spacious land previous to the industrialization. Yet, the darkened foreground due to the overcasting shadows resemble the currently dirty,
In the film Sugar Cane Alley, the journey of a young orphan boy is illustrated in the island of Martinique located right outside France in the 1930s. The protagonist, Jose, must reside with his grandmother who must do the jobs of poor black’s which includes washing clothes and working the sugar cane plantations for the rich white’s in town. Jose manages to see the significant social and economic gaps through the multiple characters around him even after the abolition of slavery. This gap is further supported through the visits to the capital, Fort-de-France, where Jose gains the opportunity to further his education through a scholarship offer. As this educational journey progresses, the audience is able to see comparisons to Van Onselen’s article, traditional African roles, and the social tensions experienced by the mulattos in a predominantly black and white population.
When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.
The opening scene of the film utilises multiple aspects in order to display the hopeless that looms over the dystopian world that the audience is presented with. The film uses a mix of both visual imagery to show this along with verbal features in order to convey this to the audience.
A disheveled man carries a scantily clad young woman in his arms while staring intensely into her eyes. She holds his gaze, but doesn’t appear to be as interested in him as he is in her. The background is ablaze, and the foreground is interposed with three separate images. The first is a group of men on horseback, racing down a street, the man on the lead horse is approached by a woman in a cascading white gown, her arms raised either begging him to stop, or bidding farewell. The second image is a path leading away from the woman up to an elaborate, well-maintained home. The final image is one of a couple in a carriage racing away from a burning city behind them. It is clear from the intimate pose of the couple featured at the top, and the
On an 18th century British plantation there was constant battle between slaves and planters, for the slaves needed to keep their cultural forms alive. Harsh treatment of slaves by the planter, often forced slaves to resort to various forms of resistance in order to keep their cultural forms alive. While the slaves of the plantation were able outsmart the planter at times, the planter also devised wicked schemes that made life for slaves extremely difficult.