Over the past two years I've developed a more academic respect for film whereas before I just watched films for entertainment. Last year I looked at Akira Kurosawa and John Cassavetes' work, and I started to really appreciate the craft of film-making - the amount of thought that goes into each scene, the story, even what it is being filmed on. Film is considered to be the absolute art as it involves everything creatively both through the digital mediums and physical works. This year I have in a way carried on from my previous year's studies by looking at Neo-realism.
Neo-realism first came to light in post-war Italy with directors such as de Sica, Rossellini, and Fellini being the founders of the movement. Its aim was to show the world the reality of life in Italy rather than the illusion that film had created to hide the socio-economic issues of the country. They used real locations with unprofessional actors to play out some of the rawest story that cinema has ever encounter. It is a movement that I find profoundly interesting and I rather look forward to writing about it.
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