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Visual style of the Intensified Continuity in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Bobreková, Anna ; POZZI, Jaroslav (advisor) ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (referee)
This study is focused on a narration and visual style analysis of the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The emphasis is put on the influence of the comics, that the movie is based on and also influences of the PC and video- games. It also works with the style, defined by David Bordwell as Intensified Continuity. That includes work of camera such as focus and camera moves, final editing and lenght of shots. Based on the Intensified Continuity, it also says how the creators of the movie were able to further develop that style and make the movie more dynamic.
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"Light-motive" in czech documentary
Přibylová, Květoslava ; RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Alice (advisor) ; ŘEZNÍČEK, Martin (referee)
"From Faithful Star to Light Pollution: Artificial Light Theme in Czech Documentary Film," compares six documentaries made in different epoch and showes how the point of view on the topic of artificial light is changing. Except for showing main changes over time, the essay wants to underline that there are also some symbolic meanings of artificial light which remain permanently regardless of history.
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HOME MOVIES AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AUTHORIAL SUBJECT
Brabcová, Evženie ; DAŇHEL, Jan (advisor) ; HORNÍČEK, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe the visual phenomenon of home movies and their relation to the authorial subject. The subject of home movies is introduced in the first chapters and it deals with technology and its impact on amateur film work as well as the use of technical terms and academic reflection of home movies. The aspect of the authorial subject is viewed through the works of several personalities, who represent both typical and marginal attitudes to home movies production. One of these personalities is Ludvík Šváb whose private and experimental films proved to be a source of friction, which enabled me to track down and define the genre of home movies and realize that it does not have to be viewed solely within the amateur discourse. The method of creative recycling and reinterpretation of home movies by a filmmaker Martin Ježek offers almost a transcendental perspective. The paper also presents an analysis of the means of expression in the home movies and their use within given model authorial subjects.
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Analyze of imiges from the movie Nocturnal Butterfly
Park, Soyoung ; KUBÍČEK, Jiří (advisor) ; DUTKA, Edgar (referee)
Abstract
"Nocturnal Butterfly" is short animation film which is directed by Raoul Servais. This animation is Servais's homage to Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. This paper concerns comparative analysis between the images of Nocturnal Butterfly about male and female, butterfly, mirror, railway station, automaton, last freeze-frame, and motifs of Delvaux's painting.
At first, my research at overall characteristic of surrealism would show that Delvaux's painting shares such characteristic. André Breton who is a key man in surrealism believed that automatism is driving force for artistic creation, so he thought we must look into the unconscious and world of dream to create new aesthetic reality and to comprehend reality just as it is without prejudice caused by reason and rationality. Especially he tried for liberation of the consciousness through automatic drawing, collage and depaysement in surrealistic painting. Delvaux with Magritte used depaysement to give psychological shock to appreciator, so he used mythology as motifs to draw inner landscape unfamiliarly and mysteriously. And though idealized images of women he expressed own desire.
After, I would review other works of Raoul Servais. He has expressed own view in various ways by using new approach for each work. Through criticism at human civilization and mythicism of desire he has utopian attitude even though he has criticized absurdity of actuality circumstance. Nocturnal Butterfly has atmosphere fascinating and mysterious but unfamiliar than clear messages. It seems that the atmosphere of the work considerably results from images taken from Delvaux's painting. And Nocturnal Butterfly shows ambiguous and unfamiliar feeling of surrealism using shooting mode of live action films and photographic images.
Next, I would review images in Nocturnal Butterfly. Delvaux expressed idealized images of male and female as his central figure motives, but Raoul Servais expressed images of male and female as earthly images in Nocturnal Butterfly. Woman with movement in Nocturnal Butterfly is waiting someone and reacting to eyes from man rather than she is idealized being. But She is also mysterious being. She is dancing with another self appeared from mirror as her double, in fantastic and fascinating time. But when train in reality arrives and a man appears, the time is over. The man wearing a hat in Nocturnal Butterfly is like Delvaux?s self-image mixed with scientist and gentleman. The man watches the object of desire, and possesses the object. Delvaux?s painting as last scene in Nocturnal Butterfly seems to be index of photograph image displayed from both surrealism and movie. So it informs that this animation is not over but continues to a piece of reality. The result of analysis of the images in Nocturnal Butterfly shows that Nocturnal Butterfly is the most fascinating and mysterious new animation with weakened completion of narration unlike other works of Raoul Servais.
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Film Phenomena
Ghebremichael, Asmara ; PETŘÍČEK, Miroslav (advisor) ; ROSENZVEIG, Eric (referee)
This thesis will examine film as a phenomenal aspect of reality. We will look at the idea of a ?film? as a cinematic apparition: as an object that both creates and reflects knowledge of the world and knowledge in the world. We will analyze cinema as a practical mechanism for constructing an understanding of our world: how we perceive it, how we interact with it, and how we reflect it. Finally, we will explore cinema as both a product and purveyor of consciousness.
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Constructing Artificial Chaos
Hakl, Vilém ; VAJCHR, Marek (advisor) ; ŠERÝ, Ladislav (referee)
This work is about works of art which imitate chaos in terms of their structure. The focus of this work is POETICS OF CHAOS, in other words: specific techniques used to construct artificial chaos. The poetics of chaos is also explored through narration, the grotesque anti-myth about Eris, the Goddess of Chaos, and Paris, the prince of Troy, and his horrifying masturbation phantasy. The main field of this work is literature and film, but music and painting are also explored. The analysis of SPAS (a novel by Ivan Matousek) and ASTHENIC SYNDROME (a film by Kira Muratova) are included, because the structure of these masterpieces is brilliantly chaotic.
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3D as a Justified Means of Shifting the Meaning of Film
Toulová, Eva ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; VALAK, Radim (referee)
In my thesis I deal with theoretical analysis: 3D as a Justified Means of Shifting the Meaning of Film. I deal with 3D movies employing the third dimension as a necessary and essential part of the artistic concept which has a demonstrable significance in shifting the meaning of the work and thus makes the method of 3D filming into a legitimate means of artistic intent. If transferred to the 2D dimension, these films would not "work" to the same effect, their meaning would be changed or even lost, or perhaps they would not be created at all - namely: Pina by Wim Wenders, Heart Beat by Jan Nemec, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog.
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Jungian shadow archetype in contemporary western cinema
Reich, Michal ; TRAJKOV, Ivo (advisor) ; DOLENSKÝ, Martin (referee)
The main topic of this diploma thesis is the form and content of jungian shadow archetype in
contemporary western cinema. In the first chapters it introduces the basic concepts of
analytical psychology, which will be used as the principal method for analysis of the selected
films (Fight Club, Game, Black Swan, Fisher King). The key concept is that in the core of each
story are hidden archetypal contents. According to jungians these are the main force behind
emotional response of audience. In films they can be portrayed either directly ? by
personification into a film characters whose numinosity is supported by film language ? or
indirectly ? by narrative elements and character's functions. The thesis concentrates on both
options and analyzes formal means which express psychic nature of the selected film's
elements. It defines three phases of ego-shadow relationship which are vaguely similar to
three acts structure. It examines shadow archetype's function in the story and in human
psychology as well. The results are put into context of jungian concepts. Rather than creating
a complex system, the thesis outlines another option how to think about film and film
language, which is deeply rooted in human psychology.
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True Legends of Bathory and Jánošík
Lévyová, Lívia ; VAJCHR, Marek (advisor) ; MRAVCOVÁ, Marie (referee)
The thesis focuses on two contemporary films that were created around the same period of time and both involve legendary topics. They both aspire to become central European epics. It situates them within the context of global cinema but simultaneously tries to analyze each as a unique work of art. They share many similarities as well as differences.
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