the secret of shadows (from francis a. yates)

(please click images to make them bigger)new film finished (35 minutes!) and available soon on dvd. look for it in fine establishments dealing in smut and iniquities.soundtrack: the gentle sound of rainimages: inspired by tarkovsky's driving sequence in solaris

abstraction of trees, mondrian

landzicht farm under bluish-grey sky, 1905geinrust farm in watery landscape, 1905-1906the grey tree, 1911composition 10 in black and white, 1915the classic book: piet mondrian: catalogue raisonné by joop joosten and robert welsh, abrams 1996(this is research for a video featuring north carolina trees, some big, some small, all put through the alembic of my camera. i asked old mondrian to help out

killing in tarkovsky & kurosawa

similarities between andrei tarkovsky'sandrei rublev, 1966& akira kurosawa's seven samurai 1954andrei tarkovsky andrei rublev, 1966rublev's assistant is shot in the back by an arrow and struggles toward the camera, then dies in the water. all in slow motion. notice water hitting the lense.akira kurosawa seven samurai 1954two classic death scenes in seven samurai. first, a thief is killed by

the duck of death*

rain in the films martin and unforgiven.martin, 1977 directed by george a. romero, cinematography by michael gornick.great rain montage between the bizarre murders committed by the (possible) vampire.this section and others really stood out and gave the film the feeling of an european art-house film, which i found to go nice with the senseless murdering. the ending of michelangelo antonioni's

rain & snow.......daniels & zsigmond

2 cinematographers and their use of water (or weather).-rain in brute force, 1947 directed by jules dassin, cinematography by william h. daniels.the beginning of this classic prison break film by jules dassin has various shots of the building in extreme rain, and sets the tone for the rest of the film (turbulent and unpredictable).-snow in mccabe & mrs. miller, 1971 directed by robert altman,

rain, landscape and light in ozu's a story of floating weeds, 1934

beautiful images by yasujiro ozu and cinematographer hideo shigehara.