Reel Cinema

30/05/2023

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In this episode we examine Walter Paters theory that all art aspires to the condition of music by exploring how director Damien Chazelle attempts to give music a physical representation through the medium of film.

In this episode we examine Walter Paters theory that all art aspires to the condition of music by exploring how director Damien Chazelle attempts to give mus...

29/03/2023

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In this episode we examine Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans and the ethical implications in combining a directors own life and the fictional recreation of it...

30/01/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LWLrFomR3E In this episode we explore Andre Bazin's theory of Total Cinema by examining the technological advancements in James Cameron's Avatar The Way of Water.

In this episode we explore Andre Bazin's theory of Total Cinema by examining the technological advancemnets in James Cameron's Avatar The Way of Water. ...

08/01/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STRcLrReMTU NEW EPISODE COMING SOON!

An ad for our next episode that examines James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water and the hybridity of formalism and realism to question has cinema been inve...

06/01/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd00x_taRLA New Episode! In this epsiode we explore Joshua Oppenheimers documentary The Act of Killing and examine how he uses the cinéma vérité process as a theraputic tool to uncover guilt in the perpetators of the Indonesian genocide.

In this epsiode we explore Joshua Oppenheimers documentary The Act of Killing and examine how he uses the cinéma vérité process as a theraputic tool to uncov...

25/10/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN3HqscB-hI New Episode!

This episode explores the film Blonde and how director Andrew Dominik uses formalist conventions to examine the exploitation of Marilyn Monroe. ...

08/09/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwS_azzYso New Episode!

This episode explores Michael Haneke's Funny Games and the way in which it examines the core of the horror film form. This video essay delves into the films ...

06/07/2022

We are back with another episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3pUG9d2GPM

In this episode we explore the film Come and See and its blending of realist and formalist conventions to create the surreal.

30/01/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTiNsfTeMdw NEW EPISODE! This episode explores the effects the fictionalization of the Holocaust has had on our collective memory.

Reel Cinema Episode 8 explores the dichotomy between the recreation of the Holocaust in cinema and the effect this has on our collective memory of the Holoca...

20/01/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_F9cEP29Ao&t=20s Episode 8 Coming Soon!

Sneak preview of Reel Cinema Episode 8 which focuses on memory and the Holocaust.

19/11/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3askdi0ax1k&t=3s Episode 7 is finally out! In this episode we explore how Abbas Kiarostami uses the layers of the Koker trilogy as an analogy for the ontology of cinema.

This episode we examine Abbas Kiarostami's Koker trilogy which explores the ontology of cinema through the blending of the fictional, the real, and the proce...

28/09/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgtR22EJGQ Episode 7 Coming Soon!!!

Reel Cinema Episode 7 will explore the Koker Trilogy

05/07/2021

This episode explores voyeurism in Michael Haneke's film Caché

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In this episode we examine Michael Haneke's films Caché and his use of voyeurism.

23/06/2021

In this episode we examine the filmography of Richard Linklater who explores the nature of cinema through cinema's temporality and materiality.

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In this episode we examine the filmography of Richard Linklater who explores the nature of cinema through cinema's temporality and materiality. ...

02/06/2021

New Episode Coming Soon!!

29/05/2021

Episode 4 explores how Martin Scorsese uses his mother to examine Andre Bazin's theory "The Ontology of the Photographic Image"
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This episode explores Andre Bazin's ontology of the photographic image in relation to Martin Scorsese's documentary Italianamerican. ...

12/05/2021

NEW EPISODE! This episode explores the connection between the objectivity of a photograph and the subjectivity of painting to question what is cinema?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SJK4ff0ls

This episode explores the connection between the objectivity of a photograph and the subjectivity of painting to question what is cinema? ...

06/05/2021

Episode 2 is live. Check it out!
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This episode explores Director Ingmar Bergman's conscious reconstruction of his dreams through the language of film. ...

03/05/2021

Meet the voice behind Reel Cinema!

I'd like to introduce you to Matt Coles

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Providing quality voiceovers using professional equipment for every kind of project, from adverts fo

01/05/2021

New Episode May 6th!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6K2AewTqdRQekyFROeu9bQ

28/04/2021

Reel Cinema has officially launched with their first episode title The Hybridity of Realism and Formalism in Goodfellas. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQDObakakM

This video essay explores how director Martin Scorsese uses and subverts documentary conventions to challenge the fidelity of realism in documentary.