Tag: cinema

Essay: The Magic of the Montage

May 4, 2016 by Jim Stephenson

The worlds of cinema and of photography run closely to one other. So many techniques are shared, adapted, lent and borrowed; only a few elements remain exclusively in the domain of one or the other. One such element that film can use with such power is editing, and the montage. Our resident film writer, Gabriel Gane, takes us through the history and it’s significance to storytelling, of this technique. Editing: The Magic of Montage “Editing is the basic creative force, by power of […]

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Essay: Architecture in Film – A Foundation for Story

March 21, 2016 by Jim Stephenson

With the release of High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel, the manner in which architecture is used as a cinematic device is in the spotlight again. Through Blade Runner, Rear Window and Inception (spoilers below for all three), via Harry Potter, Star Wars, Alien and The Shining, Miniclick’s resident film writer Gabriel Gane explores some of the most notable occasions in which architecture has played a starring role. Architecture in Film – A Foundation for Story In the introduction […]

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Essay: It’s All Just Movies

February 13, 2016 by Jim Stephenson

Documentary film making is in the midst of something a renaissance at the moment. Most notably, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos’ Making of a Murderer sparked as much of a buzz, and as many water-cooler conversations, blog posts and tweets as any blockbuster has over the last couple of months. In search of the truth, how much is the viewer being manipulated? Our new columnist, film maker and editor Gabriel Gane, takes a look at the tools the film maker (and Werner Herzog in […]

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Screening: Ghostwatch – Weds 14th Oct

August 20, 2015 by Jim Stephenson

This October Miniclick are working with Curtis James of Fieldwork to present a series of events around photography and the paranormal as Miniclick goes Spirit Side. As part of that programme we’re extremely pleased to present, alongside the BFI and the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, a special screening of Ghostwatch, followed by a live Q&A with Ghostwatch writer Stephen Volk, director Lesley Manning and creator of ‘Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains’, Rich Lawden. For all the other Spirit Side events we’re organising through October, click […]

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Film Screening: Battle Company Korangal – 12th March 2015

March 9, 2015 by Jim Stephenson

Following on from our screening with Dukes at Komedia of Sebastian Junger’s “Which Way is the Front Line from Here?”, we’re very pleased to be working with the Dukes again to screen another of Junger’s films, “Battle Company: Korangal”. +++ Thursday 12th March. Kicks off at 6:30pm. Tickets are £10 and available here Proceeds from ticket sales go to charity. Dukes at Komedia, Brighton. +++ Korangal kicks off where academy award nominated, “Restrepo” left us and uses footage shoot in 2007 and 2008 by Tim Hetherington to look […]

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