Boots Riley: ‘In film, the more personal you get, the more universal you get

Born in Chicago in 1971 and moving to the city of Oakland, California, six years later, Riley was steeped in politics from an early age. His parents were social justice organisers and their son followed suit, joining the Marxist-Leninist Progressive Labor party at 15. In 1991, he formed hip-hop collective the Coup and went on to release six politically charged albums, notably 1998’s acclaimed Steal This Album.

Making movies was a long-held aspiration – Riley studied film at San Francisco State university and spent years honing the script for Sorry to Bother You. His persistence paid off: the film was described by the New Yorker as “a scintillating comedic outburst of political imagination and visionary fury”, while AO Scott in the New York Times wrote: “If you’re not bothered – also tickled, irked, mystified and provoked – [by Sorry to Bother You], then you’ve fallen asleep on the job.”

Read the article: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/25/boots-riley-musician-director-sorry-to-bother-you-interview

Homage videos by students

 

 

 

 

 

These are all one minute.

Harmony Korine

DIG- short narrative

 

Shot reverse shot- getting in close

 

Using Cell phones; seeing light and setting in your domestic environments

 

Although this tutorial is about the static self portrait, it gives so many great tips for how to set the scene - working with what you already have access to- your own domestic environment. 

These ideas are very simple- you can do it. Before you shoot, assess the setting you have to work with. 

Spike Jonze- How they Get Here

Narrative Homage

The auteur theory of cinema proposes that directors have styles and they should be recognized as artists much as we might identify the style of a painter or musician. For this project, we run with that idea.

The auteur theory, which was derived largely from Astruc's elucidation of the concept of caméra-stylo (“camera-pen”), holds that the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay.Jul 20, 1998

This page features a series of works by students in RTD365A and clips from films by professionals that highlight aspects of their particular aesthetic focus.

Student film and below inspirational director Michel Gondry

bonus content! Michel Gondry film with David Cross as a turd

TErry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Wes Anderson

Terrence Malik Motifs

Malick Motifs from Rachel Glassman on Vimeo.

One more of Malik: film uses a monologue

New directors:
Website of new directors


Dave Meyers- mostly music videos and commercials
https://www.radicalmedia.com/us/directors/dave-meyers?reel=commercial

Terence Nance (An oversimplification of her beauty)

Swimming in your skin again by Nance

Music video directors



2 clips from Orlando by Sally Potter who makes films where characters challenge traditional gender roles