Film Stills / Images
For anyone interested in Japanese film stills, I found a website here:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=film_stills&keyword=–Foreign+Films:+Japan&filter=all
If you click on the main page, there might be some other Japanese movies posted, depending: http://community.livejournal.com/film_stills/
One of the most disturbing film stills I have seen come from Tetsuo The Iron Man (I couldn’t even finish this movie). Images for this can be found here: http://community.livejournal.com/film_stills/483897.html
Erin
October 14th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Certainly interesting, although the first link doesn’t seem to work.
I find this a very intriguing way to look at a film; to break it down into individual frames and enjoy it from the perspective of still photo rather than moving picture. It introduces the ability to take in the image in a way that may not have been intended by the filmmaker. This way, short takes can be observed and appreciated in a way that normally only a long take can.
I know that studying film often involves stopping the motion to study the frame, but it is interesting to see people engage in the practice purely for the enjoyment.