Notes by Aitana

Notes on festivals

• INTIMA FEST

Rocio Montano, Melocotones tardios en VIMEO, también MOMI

Writing with Steve about the Eye

Aitana: [no title yet] Are we having a conversation? / Do you understand what I am saying? sneak into a vague and hardly visible world This short film invites to sneak into a vague and hardly invisible world and asks the question "do you understand what I am saying?"

words describe things but also words are "performative speech act" an invitation is an insert invite. Communicating something that may change the world, it has more meanings than the simplified fact of describing. Invitations are questions about performative things, they are acting the world.

A series of films that pose a series of questions. It stabilises it in that frame.

Requiremets: Title Invitation Question

How generous am I going to be to the reader? How do we do that today in a very short and concise way.

"We ask the questions"

Performativity in what we are doing. Words are very active in the world.

Questionnaire.

Notes on Eye On Art: Sexual Unease - Marilyn Monroe as symbol of female oppression in film: women can only become a tragedy. The beautiful lady being killed by her fame. Her appearance is most important. Struggling woman that always was controlled by a man. - Gender unease works both ways. Both stereotypical representations keep the others intact.

25 Jan. 23 - Notes on IFFR

Dinamo Blues Q&A (27/01)

Someone asks which is the role of the distributors?

Someone replies that COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTORS /= than INDEPENDANT DISTRIBUTORS

Independent distributors doesn't have exclusive agreement (different from comercial work)

Started from filmmakers (John Smith NY??)and primarly run by artists (non comercial films, the don't do any money). Huge archives, negatives, prints (a need to take care of this)

Activism for helping filmmakers (remain activists)

Distributors represent artists

and dedication to the rights to the artists

At the beginning it stablished a network to meet every year, it evaluated in industry like a federation, there was a place in the sector for the independent sectors

In terms of currency is relevant

Arc Talk - Tooth(30/01)

If there is no dialogue, then use pro logic? Broadcast lawyers*

Talking about -> Place of encounters, he doesn't own the meanings of the works

Talking about -> Performances, foreground space, the space of the viewing, you become aware of the architecture of the space, your body and mind, film works in architecture, photons to map our perceptual systems

Talking about -> Reality of the screening which is the same than ours, massless photons always as an alive thing, you reground yourself in the world (as a performance)

(Question) -> What about being imperfect? -> using acrobatic elements, hiding places down the screen and he likes to foreground that, capitalism is about linear time

Talking about -> frustration? Am I frustrated? or am I enchained into this chain of command? about another awareness of time,

(the silent pieces are never silent)

(silent pieces raise the room sound)

(and sound is super physical and goes into your body)

he says fuck linear time and Arabella laughs

Professionalism destroys the work that he loves, the work is changing all the time

• CHECK BLACK HOLE CYNEMATEQUE -> https://soex.org

(talking about Occupy Oakland)

and most people of the upper classes are in the industry, "poor don't know about art"

Thinking about -> reflexions about having a space, "if you think what you saw is interesting, that is it, it doesn't have to have an intellectual feeling". Provide conceptual and physical spaces

Talking about -> Capitalist film festival. He doesn't believe in documentary or objectivity. About "Occupy Oakland", idea of the free film school, educating themselves in a comunal way, the time is imbbeded in the technology, the time is imbued? in the technology, importance of materials, he doesn't feel nostalgic about film, in the present day is a present object, but he says "people use it for pretentious reasons", "BW is pretentious" (we laugh), film is not a fetiche3

He says something about -> Clarice Lispector?

Whatever you apprehend is what it is

Project? -> "Subjective news reel"?

30/01/2023 - Notes on touchdesigner

- we cannot move

- If something doesn't work: may be is related to bluetooth, also could be that the timeline is stop

- understand the range

- *: means everything

- first number of translate is the x

-1: over -1: composite (with blend mode)

- too dray with the banana is feedback network

• kinackt by Microsoft

- we will need to use all the time "maths"

- this "feedback network" has to be really small

- she doesn't recommend too use letters in touchdesigner but numbers (triggering the shortcuts)

- bypass: enable / disable

- right click in an operator: "operator snippets" and it shows you how it works

Guy Sherwin: - bring focus to the cinema - extended cinema, breaking the traditional setting - Guy Sherwin "Man with a circle" - experimental cinema, unconventional film since the beginning - using basic elements to go against the commercial (you are not aware of the media)

James and John Whitney - Slit scan - Shan Shui

Mondrian calculator working on comissions

Creating a slice: - Composit - for the feedback we always need the over to keep the image

09/05/2023 - Da Vinci

WGA Duration Talking about the writers in Hollywood and the uses of algorithms in the script. Non-scripted-reality

Opening the project: you will probably shoot in the same fps you'll edit.

logorythmic log space, very low contrast.

AS A START

Barend repeats: "If you like what you see, then it is ok"

LUTs presets

LUT: excel sheet saying: "what comes in with that value, comes out with that other value"

Color spaces Rec709**** (almost always, all the time)

Fusion: layers, After Effects: nodes, Scratch: layer based most of the professionals have less than 10 nodes. It is not so complicated (talking about YouTube tutorials)

4 color wheels in Da Vinc, but usually its 3

Gain: White Balance

Lift: doesn't change the white, twique the tint of the blacks

Gamma: the same, in the mid tones. 0 remains 0 and 100 remains 100 but the middle changes. (the same than moving the curve)

=levels filters in Photoshop.

Color bost: leaves the desaturated areas and adds color to the colours

Shadows: what you would do with a curve

• These logarithmic curves requires a "S" curve

• Curve can break the relation between luminance and saturation. --> the mathematical LUTS are quite good with that

Curves - Lum Vs Sat

The worst in color grading is several lights from different sources.

He is not usually TOO careful in the begining, he starts building a contrast that he likes.

Sat VS Sat: put saturation but leaving the grey as they are and the saturated as they are as well. Una curva de campana rises the mid tones of saturation

Si hay cambios dramáticos en una sola toma, "yo have to be more surgical" by masking

Frame con la piel pitufa: Qualifier - HSL. Keyframes in skintone

Separate node separar los greens