Buhl-Short film clips

Bunny

The short clip in the extras of Ice Age is very interesting to analyze the film techniques. The way the directors used objects, for example the oven, to bring greater meaning is amazing. Ovens make and transform things that we spend time creating ourselves; through life we create our identity and our life meaning. Once Bunny crawled through the oven she was transformed, like food would have done, into the world of the transcendent. The music also plays a role in the experience of the film. When times become intense the music picks up, persuading the viewer to become tenser and focus more of what is going on. During other times of calmness the music is not as energetic. 

Buffalo

            In this short clip the community is moving its dead because a flood is coming. The car is headed towards the great mountains off in the distance. What is interesting is that in the for-ground where the car is there is nothing on the land and it is dark and gray; where as if you look to the mountains off in the distance their seems to be life and stability waiting with sunshine and light to. Mountains are made of rock, which symbolizes sturdiness, and a grounded place to live.

Paris Texas

            This movie is full of mountain verse desert scenes, however what I would like to talk about is the scene where Travis and his wife are talking with each other through the glass when they both know who each other are. Reflections are key in the camera angles; when one person is talking they always have their backs toward the other. However, the other person’s face we can only see through reflections, which can represent how they cannot be with each other physically, but they still are obtaining some part of the other through the phone. Along with the reflections the producer has also overlapped each person’s image with the other person indicating they are together, yet separate.

Pink Floyd

            This film was disturbing in a way. Everything that was depicted in the animated scenes transformed into something different even more disturbing. Every transformation represented how this guy felt because of his messed up childhood. The different feelings depicted through the different transformations for me meant that he has an identity issue; he does not know who he is because all of the things in his mind are transforming so fast making him confused as to how to be content. Everything in his mind was symbolism that stood for an important message, like the blood running down into the sewage below the city.

Cabeza de Vaca

            The scene that really spoke to me was towards the end where the main character had already been through his transformation with the native people. He was standing on the “other side” of the picture from his civilization making the point that he was no longer one of them. He was against making the natives slaves in order to build the Cathedral. Yes it was for religious purposes but making the natives slaves was also against what he believed. The symbolism in his stance, where he has almost nothing behind him while the others have different types of machinery behind them represents his aloneness and also his difference.