Tag: Film
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Compostelle at the Open Air Cinema in Gland
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to the outdoor cinema again, this time to watch Compostelle. It’s a hiking trip movie. It’s a film that is centered of walking from point A to Point B, over a period of months. The three main characters are Fred, the adult ‘éducatrice’, Adam, the problem child, and…
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A Run and an Open Air Film Screening
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I went to Gland for a mid-afternoon run before watching Disclosure Day at an outdoor cinema. The run route took me along the Toblerones up to Vich, and then I turned East and ran along a road I often cycle along, before then heading back down, over the motorway, and…
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La Venue De L’avenir Outdoors in Gland
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo or three weeks ago a friend asked whether I wannted to go to the outdoor cinema so I thought "maybe" and last night I did. We went to see La Venue de L’Avenir by Cédric Klapisch. Years ago I wrote an essay about Klapisch within the context of the Cinéma de…
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The Platform – Thoughts
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo nights ago I saw that Netflix was recommending that I watch The Platform 2, so I watched The Platform instead. The Platform is a Spanish film that takes place in a pit/prison. Within this prison every cell is stacked vertically and those on the first floor get first dibs on food.…
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AI, Film, and Social Media
Reading Time: 4 minutesI like to experiment with Bard and chatGPT. I like to see what their limits are, but with time and effort I like to get beyond their limits and get them to do what I want, without failing too often. DJI and other brands have had self-editing options for years now, so…
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Nanook Of The North
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo days ago I watched Nanook of the North, a documentary about an Inuit man and his family. This isn’t a documentary in the conventional sense. This documentary dates back to 1922 when the Documentary film was a brand new genre. This is one of the first documentaries, if not the first.…
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Netflix – Browse By Language
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently Netflix added a Browse by Language option which means that you can browse for content by original language. Yesterday I saw that I can browse for content in French, Italian, Polish,, Korean, German and many more languages. I could list more but that’s dull. Instead I want to focus on the…
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Day 33 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A video walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I went on a video walk with the DJI OSMO pocket three or whichever number it has and I took a series of frames. Before going for my daily walk I searched through the Vision Du Réel virtual Film Festival list of films and I found “The Bridge“. It’s available for…
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Interdependence – An environmental film in eleven parts
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night I went to see Interdependence, an environmental film in eleven parts. It is a collection of short films that explore environmental themes around the topics of air, water, and earth. When I watched one part it reminded me of Les Vacances de Mr Hulot, a french film from 1953. It…
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Arrest – Screened at the Black Movie film Festival
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I went to see Arrest – screened at the Black Movie film festival. It’s an independent film festival taking place in Geneva at the moment. I’m a volunteer at the event and in exchange for standing at the door and checking tickets, I get to see any film that still…