#instawesome

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

“What a beautiful film. I really thought The Wolves of the East | Higashi no Ohkami (2018) was a beautiful film. The story of the film made me think of Akira Kurosawa’s film Dersu Uzala (1975) which is also about a hunter but then in Siberia. The Wolves of the East film takes place in Nara, Japan where a hunters organization has taken over the role of the wolves that went extinct in the region about 100 years ago to keep the deer population under control. The main character believes that the wolves might have survived, but he has no proof. I felt that I could really empathize with the main character, the old hunter. Not that I have ever hunted in my life. I loved seeing the film in its setting in Japan because I love Japan and I visited that country often. That’s why I loved experiencing this film’s narrative because it makes me think of my visits to that beautiful country and I have even been to Nara. The environment is super gorgeous. Full of mountains and rich in forests. Mount Yoshino is famous for its cherry blossoms and the cherries that come from it. I never knew about the wolves situation in that region though. I do know about the deer. They’ve got so many of them over there. You even see people dressed up as deer mascots. It’s very typical in the region to see that because they indeed shoot the deer to keep the population under control. Besides that, they have a lot of beautiful temples. I saw a lot of this back in the film so it was definitely done in a realistic way.” ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #streetphotography #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #photooftheday #movies #photography #humanstories #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #kurosawa #asiancinema #instamood #nederland #worldcinema #humansofjoy #instamovies #instaphoto #beautiful #thewolvesoftheeast #nara #yoshino #japan #mountyoshino #movies @rialto @cinemasia @debalie @worldcinemaamsterdam @oneworldnl @degroeneamsterdammer (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[thelifesway]

The lovely way to end this day @themallofafrica #MallofAfrica #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica #TheLifesWay #Photoyatra #aashishRai #SocialMediaInfluencer #Blogger #GalaxyNote8 #DoBiggerThings #shotwithmygalaxy #Destinations #TravelIdeas #WeekendTrip #BlackSkies #ShoppingMall #DinnerTime #Funwithfamily #JohannesburgCityLife #5yearsofthelifesway #instAwesome #instadaily #WaterfallEstate #ig_myshot #shotwithlove #icatching #collectivelycreate (at Mall of Africa)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

(1/2) "I thought 3 Faces | Se rokh (2018) was a good film. I do have to admit that I thought it was a documentary film because it seemed conveyed to me in that way by someone else, but it is a beautiful fiction film. The movie is about an actress (Behnaz Jafari) who is shocked by a video of a young girl (Marziyeh Rezaei) who says that she also wants to become an actress, but her family prevents her. So she pleads for help. That is why the actress leaves the film set and together with a filmmaker (Jafar Panahi) she searches for the girl. They both want to know if her plea is real or not because the film is recorded with a smartphone." "What the film did with me is raise a lot of questions. For example, what is a film exactly? When is it real or not? Is her cry for help real or is it staged? And is the entire village that the girl lives in staging it? Or is the entire movie staged? Are we watching a documentation or is it just really a film? To me, the film tried to search the boundaries and borders of reporting what's real and when is it a staged scene?" ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #streetphotography #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #film #photooftheday #movies #photography #humanstories #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #instamovies #instaphoto #beautiful #3faces #movies #film #iran @rialto @cinemasia @debalie @worldcinemaamsterdam (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

"My mother, my sister and I left my father's home to start a better life without him when I was ten years old. Because of this, I haven't been able to go to school in Taiwan. The education that I did receive was mostly from work, great people I met during my upbringing, but also a lot from television. In Taiwan, we have some great cable TV channels that educate viewers. One of those channels was HBO which is where I learned my English from. Besides that I love movies. Especially Almodovar films. I learned a lot as well from watching movies. Not just knowledge, but also how movies and documentaries are structured. Ever since I had a camera -the Sony TRV 500- of my own I would film a lot of images of my family, daily life and of my mother. As from 2014 I thought it was time to call in a group of cinematographers and filmmakers to help me with a documentary that I needed to make. It is called Ri Chang Dui Hua | Small Talk (2016) and it's about my wish to understand my mother. She was never at home, always out and about with her girlfriends instead and I always knew that she is a lesbian. The film consists of the images I filmed from 1998 to 2014 and the images from my crew film after 2014. It's all pure coincidence how it fits all perfectly. I guess that is the magic of post-production and I'm very happy with the outcome." - Hui-Chen Huang. __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #SmallTalk #movies #streetphotography #Netherlands #humansofinstagram #HuiChenHuang #film #photooftheday #womenpower #documentary #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #slickerthanyouraverage #sonytrv500 #humansofny #sony #taiwan #almodovarfilms #HBO #RiChangDuiHua (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

"The TV series The End of the F***ing World (2017) made a huge impression on me. The series is about James and Alyssa. He believes that he is a psychopath and she is an angry new girl at school. They connect and begin to date each other in the weirdest way and decide to go on a road trip to search for her real father. There are eight episodes of about 25 minutes each. It’s cinematographically bizarre, sick and beautiful and the music is fantastic. It has become my favorite series because of the way it’s filmed the angles, the colors tones, and the theme. All of this causes for particular emotions and also a lot of blood, which I’d rather not prefer to see." - Girl with Glasses. • “That is really a good summary of the series." - Girl without Glasses. • “I think I like watching films where people are kind of broken. People who had a bad experience growing up and who aren’t capable to function well within society. There’s often good acting and that is definitely the case in this TV series. I think everybody knows a person who has gone through something similar like that. I also had some difficulties growing up, but it was never as bad as in this series." - Girl with Glasses. ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #tvseries #netflix #streetphotography #Instatvseries #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #film #photooftheday #theendofthefuckingworld #jessicabarden #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #british #humansofny #amazingstories #psychopath #alexlawther (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

“When I was growing up, there were two films that left a life-long impression with me. I forgot the name of one, but the first was about a family of foxes with seven cubs. The foxes were constantly looking for food, but as the winter became harsher the cubs would die one by one. The fact that the family fell apart because of this, moved me so much. I come from a family of seven kids, but I was adopted by a Duitch family when I was just one year old. Being adopted can be a struggle sometimes. But it’s also a long life gold mine for making art. My Korean parents aren’t alive anymore and one brother and a sister passed at a very young age. Come to think of it, it is actually crazy how many parallels there are with the family of foxes and mine. Movies about death and loss always leave the biggest impression with me. Even more when children are involved with it. There is also a scene in Nobody’s boy Rémi (1977) where Rémi’s foster father falls in the snow, freezing to his death which I never forgot. I noticed that my stories are always about loss, but also about acceptance of the past.” __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #CinemAsia #foxes #streetphotography #Netherlands #cubs #humansofinstagram #fun #nobodysboyremi #film #photooftheday #fox #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #korean #documentary #sevenfoxes #Cinemasiafilmfestival #remi #humansofny (at Hermitage Amsterdam)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

“When I was growing up, there were two films that left a life-long impression with me. I forgot the name of one, but the first was about a family of foxes with seven cubs. The foxes were constantly looking for food, but as the winter became harsher the cubs would die one by one. The fact that the family fell apart because of this, moved me so much. I come from a family of seven kids. My Korean parents aren't alive anymore and one brother and a sister passed at a very young age. Come to think of it, it is actually crazy how many parallels there are with family of foxes and mine. Movies about death and loss always leave the biggest impression with me. Even more when children are involved with it. There is also a scene in Nobody's boy Rémi (1977) where Rémi's foster father falls in the snow, freezing to his death which I never forgot. I noticed that my stories are always about loss, but also about acceptance of the past.” __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #CinemAsia #foxes #streetphotography #Netherlands #cubs #humansofinstagram #fun #nobodysboyremi #film #photooftheday #fox #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #korean #documentary #sevenfoxes #Cinemasiafilmfestival #remi #humansofny (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[humansoffilmamsterdam]

“During my studies in Italy, years back, I had this struggle with coincidence or better said, coincidence with a purpose: synchronicity. For me that’s when the magic happens while making a documentary. Like for example Grizzly Man (2005). Life is full of synchronicities. I like to believe you can sense them coming. Like last week, how I needed help with a speech and by coincidence someone came up offering me the exact help I needed. However, back in Italy, I learned you cannot force synchronicity to happen. In the documentary Grizzly Man by my hero Werner Herzog you see something similar in the story of Timothy Treadwell, who believed that he can communicate with wild grizzly bears. Werner Herzog doesn’t believe that humans are able to communicate with wild animals, but he is a master in allowing his audience to form their own opinion. But to go back to me studying in Italy. I remember when I wanted to see Seven Years in Tibet (1997) in the cinema’s, and I had this huge backpack with me. I thought it would be a wise idea to ‘store’ it in an empty garbage bin. I was trying to find out wether the garbage bin would be emptied or not in the 90 minutes I would be in the cinema. I concluded: that it wouldn’t. I returned after the movie, and what do I see: the garbage trucks running up and down the streets. And an empty garbage bin. Sometimes hindered by my own rational, I admire that part of what Timothy believed in: looking outside the box of reason. The last footage of Treadwell is that of a bear unfamiliar to him. Treadwell mentioned that he did not feel comfortable around that particular bear. He may have sensed that this may be the bear that would kill him later that night. But some would say that he forced his luck.” __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #CinemAsia #Synchronicity #streetphotography #Netherlands #WernerHerzog #humansofinstagram #fun #SevenYearsinTibet #film #photooftheday #grizzlybears #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #TimothyTreadwell #documentary (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)