Showing posts with label visual language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual language. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 July 2012


Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
(Nigel Coan, 2012)
From the childlike imagination of Noel Fielding, comes the mixture of live action and animation that is, Luxury Comedy. The sets are created from what looks like the contents of a child's craft set; reflective card, glitter, felt tip pens, crayon, sparkly fabrics, sequins, feathers, etc. It's an extravagant mixture of exaggerated textures and surfaces, for example, creases are painted onto fabrics. It is psychedelic and over the top and props are created from the most normal of objects, making them very abnormal in the process. Beards created from pencil crayons, facial features made from plastic cups. Make up and face paint are used in an exaggerated manner too. The whole feel of the programme is colourful and bizarre, a neon, geometric world.

Saturday, 28 January 2012


Spellbound
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)
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The famed “Dream” sequence is truly a view into Dali's paintings, translated into physicality. His collaboration with Hitchcock provides visual references to Un Chien Andalu, specifically with reference to the description of the character dreaming of eyes being sliced through. It's a very specific and surreal visual language that he has.