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[inkcoveredpoet]

As exam season is in full force.. I want to wish those who are doing exams good luck! Take care of yourself in these stressful times ❤️

[97gigi]

im so close w my friend she shaved my legs for me 

[cxvaihu]

Am not going to miss this next year

[dwsfilm]

Les Mysteres du Chateau de De – (The Mysterious House of Dice, 1929). This was the film that premiered on the same evening as Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou. It was produced by the Le Vicomte de Noailles, who would later produce L’Age d’Or for Bunuel and Dali.

 Once again there is a suggestion of narrative about two travellers exploring a very modern mansion in the hills, but Man Ray deliberately keeps his characters obscured from us by having them wear nylon stockings over their faces. And the two travellers quickly fade from the story and are replaced with other masked figures. So narrative in any conventional sense (identifiable characters with concrete goals and desires) is never really present.

 He also indulges in a lot of expressionistic camera work. Lots of canted (tilted) angles, even having the camera rotate 360 degrees to reveal the grounds of the mansion. He employs very loose hand held framing, and focuses on things like the textures of a sculpture and the abstract shadowy patterns on a ceiling caused by light bouncing off the surface of a swimming pool. He uses high angle moving shots to survey the interior of the house. He uses slow motion and reverse motion in the scenes of the masked bathers in the swimming pool. In other words he uses an array of cinematic tricks to create a strange, dreamlike and disorienting mood.

 Very different for the most part to Bunuel’s use of cinematography and mise en scene.

[gallifez]

Valentines Day dress up <3