How Can We Find Depth in Shorts

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Exploring how the duration and pacing of stories have evolved, reflecting changes in technology, viewer preferences, and societal trends.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
03:14 Part 1. Pace and Engagement
05:15 Part 2. The Power of Slow Cinema
08:13 Part 3. Social Media and Storytelling Today
09:58 Part 4. Less is More
12:32 Part 5. Images Flowing in Time
15:51 Part 6. The Art of Concise Storytelling
19:25 Silent Room
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Footage used:
Electric Apex - The Evolution of Cinema in 1 Minute (1878 - 2017)
Netflix - Love Death + Robots
DancerOnFilm - Scenes from a Movie Theatre
The Artist (2011) Michel Hazanavicius
Kinolibrary - 1930s Film Studio, Film Processing and Editing
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
11 Minutes of Bill Burr - Stand Up (Netflix)
Hot Fuzz (2007) Edgar Wright
Baby Driver (2017) Edgar Wright
Love Me Tonight (1932) Rouben Mamoulian
Alfonso Cuarón | BAFTA Screenwriter's Lecture Series
The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino
Transcendental Style Films:
Haba-bi (1997) Takeshi Kitano
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Park Chan-wook
Paul Schrader on Transcendental Style in Film | On Film | TIFF 2017
The Postman's White Nights' (2014) Andrei Konchalovsky
Sonatine (1993) Takeshi Kitano
A Man Escaped (1956) Robert Bresson
Joint Security Area (2000) Park Chan-wook
La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker
Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujirō Ozu
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Sergei Parajanov
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) Chantal Akerman
Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) Corneliu Porumboiu
Cafe Maddy - Why I cancel my date last minute
The Square (2017) Ruben Östlund
Barton Fink (1991) Coen Brothers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) John Hughes
Music used:
Robert Charlebois - Tout écartilléKeinemusik - H (Highsnobiety)
A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhime (Instrumental)
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
bsd.u - Blueberry
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
I MONSTER - The Blue Wrath
Jonny Greenwood - Convergence
Saib - Sakura Trees
Zaho de Sagazan - Les dormantes
Joint Security Area OST - Those Who Are Forgotten

Пікірлер: 37

@henrykrinkle9703 2 күн бұрын

Great video! I’m going to film school soon and I can definitely feel these changing tides. I’m excited to experiment with short form, I just hope there remains a place for serious, adult stories that aren’t memes/superheroes.

@TravisD.Barrett 4 ай бұрын

My jaw dropped when I saw that you had less than 200 subscribers. This is genuinely one of the best video essays I've seen in a long time, and it hit on lots of things I've personally been thinking about (transcendental filmmaking and short form content). You helped me understand transcendental filmmaking better and name things I've been feeling, and it is very clear that this was well researched with plenty thoughtful material to illustrate your points. I can tell your channel is going to do well, because this was an amazing essay, and I look forward to following you for more! You just got one more subscriber!

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

Thank you man, this means a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@williamshakespeare9815 4 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this. It's really thought provoking.

@DirectorsSpotlight 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video! Saved it going to revisit it again and again 🙌

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

So glad you ejoyed it!! More to come!

@DirectorsSpotlight 4 ай бұрын

@@lofi.cinema I massaged you on Instagram, just wanted to talk about crafting video essays

@sandro_core 4 ай бұрын

lovely video, especially the part on slow cinema, which is such an attractive formal mode/style to someone living now in the 2020s.

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed this. Thanks!

@zcounts 4 ай бұрын

amazing video! blessings!

@ArcherGreen 4 ай бұрын

Great intro! Subscribed (:

@mayeulpezet4479 5 ай бұрын

Love it, I added it to my "Cinema must know" playlist

@thebenjaminrupp 4 ай бұрын

link??

@tib461 4 ай бұрын

Nice video! Your channel is super underrated

@EnzoFilmsProd 4 ай бұрын

This was wonderful; I’m surprised you have under 200 subscribers, while watching it felt like you were a high production, bigger channel I see massive growth coming your way! Excellent work

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

I'm really glad you enjoyed it! This means a lot!

@aeshirin 4 ай бұрын

great video essay🤍

@poormartytoo 4 ай бұрын

tthis was a greatt watch!

@nma367 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant video mate! Very important for this metamodern age to fully Embrace social media storytelling. But I loooved the slow cinema section. Some movies there I haven’t seen! And I didn’t know that’s what Paul Shrader was all about. Have you watched The Curse yet??!! Omg. Greetings from Australia. Make more slow cinema videos!!

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate! I really appreciate your comment. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, particularly the slow cinema part - I was initially unsure about adding it! :) I haven't seen The Curse yet, but it definitely seems to be a non-conventional show that ventures into uncharted territories of cinema language. Cheers!

@nma367 4 ай бұрын

@@lofi.cinema it’s fully transcendental!! At times hard to watch - as is the point - but so worth dedicating the time to it. Just don’t anything about the finale before you watch.

@tomcav 4 ай бұрын

This is very well done thank you for making this. I just subscribed. This channel is about to📈 keep at it

@fastabst 4 ай бұрын

One of the best film videos I’ve on youtube for a long time!

@Vardaaaaaan 4 ай бұрын

Great

@franko7807 5 ай бұрын

Great video!

@tomcav 4 ай бұрын

While not entirely a transcendental film, I really enjoy La Haine. Have you seen that movie? What are your thoughts

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, La Haine isn't fully transcendental, but it shares some traits, like those moments where you're just with the characters as they hang around, doing little... It creates a sense of 'boredom' that actually engages you more, making it feel like you're spending time with friends. It's somewhat like 'Dazed and Confused' in that way :)

@Vitaphone 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic essay and thesis on different forms of storytelling! I’m not entirely sure I think the piece lands on a coherence of it point on how these elements blend into the new medium… but in some ways that is the point, and I absolutely feel we are on the verge of a new medium being born that incorporates cinema with content. I think someone like a Megan Tan or the myriad of young content creators (mostly women exploding in popularity even though there are other genders developing this style) are starting to scratch the surface. Personally I think they are still blogging “cinematically” and this is still a precursor to what is to come. Anyway great videos and would be interested in hearing your take on the new way of cinematic bloggers.

@lofi.cinema 5 ай бұрын

You're spot on with your observation. I've started to unravel how these elements might come together in a new medium, yet the full extent of their integration into micro short-form storytelling remains an open question. It's precisely what I'm exploring in my work, such as with my little experimental movie "Silent Room," although, as you rightly noted, we're just beginning to scratch the surface. The trend of cinematic blogging is an interesting evolving medium and plan to dive into exploration of cinematic blogging in a future video. This all ties back to democratizing cinema. My next video will look at AI's impact on breathing new life into how we tell stories. Thanks for sparking this discussion!🙂

@ka77ArmStyle 5 ай бұрын

❤

@anirudhsharma5151 4 ай бұрын

10:03 from which movie or tv show that scene is from? Btw great video

@lofi.cinema 4 ай бұрын

The Postman's White Nights (2014)

@anirudhsharma5151 4 ай бұрын

Thanks man this scene reminded me of a very similar scene from shoah

@zcounts 4 ай бұрын

IMO popomo>metamodern. metamodern is a subset of popomo, but metamodern is too literal and assumes there is a way or place past postmodernism. I and many others disagree with that assumption.

@JoshBurcham104 5 күн бұрын

I want to get lost in a world and story, and you simply aren't lost in a story if you're going from story to story every couple minutes which is the biggest downside imo. I like short stuff sometimes, but tiktok makes me mad dude. Even if something is meaningful it's gonna be over so soon and ur gonna be watching someone drop cakes off a roof or some such nonsense