Aesthetics Explained

Aesthetics Explained

When we appreciate a film, we subconsciously notice its technical details too. Isn’t it beauty that we all see in these details? The subconscious attention to these details and technicalities is also a part of the aesthetic experience. Art and its inherent beauty have...
Aesthetics & Cinema

Aesthetics & Cinema

What is the definition of “Aesthetics”? On introspection, it seems that Perception, Empathy and Experience put together is what could be understood as “Aesthetics.” Hence aesthetics is used not just to grasp and experience an art-form, but also to create it. In this...
Cinema & Symbolism

Cinema & Symbolism

Any art-form must have a metaphorical ability. Cinema is regarded as an art-form for this very reason. Most of the visuals and sounds in cinema are the ones that have been borrowed from art-forms like Theatre, Painting, Music and Literature. Similarly, a lot of...
The Power of Perspective

The Power of Perspective

If you look carefully, the two pictures are one and the same, but for their colour. This is in fact a parody of the depiction of Mexico in American Cinema. But is there some truth in it too? This is nothing but the politics of Cinema Making! In a movie, the faces of...
Cinema – The Mirror to its Times

Cinema – The Mirror to its Times

In view of the ongoing protests against colour discrimination in the United States of America a lot of content has been pulled down across online streaming platforms. The reason being that, in the said content the people of colour have not been represented in line...
A Whole New World of Sounds

A Whole New World of Sounds

We had the fortune of spending a week’s time with Walter Murch, an American Editor & Sound Designer. He is a two-time Oscar winner, having worked on projects like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient etc. He was at our film school to teach us. He was...