Koyaanisqatsi Film Analysis

The unrealistically hilarious Australian film, Bran Nue Dae, by director Rachel Perkins encompasses the adventures of Indigenous teenager Willie Johnson. After being shipped off to a Catholic boarding school in Perth to become a priest, he spends the entirety of the film travelling home to Broome with two hippies in a kombi van and his homeless, alcoholic uncle, Uncle Tadpole. Good morning/afternoon Miss Radunz and class. The aim of this presentation is to analyse the negative depiction of the two social groups, Hippies, portrayed by Wolfgang and Annie, who are stereotyped as unpredictable and obsessed with freedom. And Musicians, who are stereotyped as vain and self centred, which is represented by Lester. Using these stereotypes effectively

First Position follows five top dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix. The dancers that it focuses on are Michaela DePrince, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora, Aran Bell, and Miko Fogarty. It talks about the dancers lives and shows the stages of the competition, including when the dancers get awards and scholarships or contracts to dance schools and companies. Michaela DePrince, Rebecca Houseknecht, and Joan Sebastian Zamora were the older dancers. Michaela and Joan both earned scholarships to different dance schools. Aran Bell and Miko Fogarty were the younger dancers that the documentary focused on and they both got awards as well.

The 2006 feature film Kokoda, was based on the true events that occurred during the Australian war in 1939-1945, between Australia and Japan at Papua New Guinea. The film displays great insights towards the Australian troop members, providing what their thoughts may have been about their situation and the environment around them. But the film is mainly focused on Australia’s troop members, and so fails as a historical source since it didn’t provide the complete story and facts about the battles that occurred at Kokoda, and the troop member’s views that had participated from Japan’s and Papua New Guinea’s army.

Films are created for many reasons. Some of these include to entertain, inform, and raise awareness. Whilst the film ‘Kokoda’ is entertaining, it also has some value as a historical source. However, its information is limited and some aspects of the battle are not portrayed. The battle conditions for Australian soldiers in Papua New Guinea is presented in an informative way in the movie yet it does not cover the conditions the Japanese soldiers had to face as well. The portrayal of the conditions for the 39th battalion full of Australians is depicted effectively in the film through scenes that emphasise the struggle and difficulties the soldiers faced due to them. We can see the tough terrain in many scenes in the movie such as when the

Who is Haile Germia? Haile Germia is an Ethiopian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter who was born March 4, 1946 and raised in Gondar, Ethiopia who now lives in the United States. He immigrated here to the United States in 1968 to pursue acting, and enrolled in the Goodman School of Drama located in Chicago. He is best known for his film Sankofa which raised a lot of awareness to the African American community. He is also known for the Los Angeles school of black filmmakers. He is a very influential professor that teaches at Howard University which is located in Washington, DC, which he has been teaching there since 1975.

The film Mosquita y Mari directed and created by Aurora Guerrero is a coming of age story set about Huntington Park in the southeastern part of Los Angeles. It uses tense scenery that seeks to explore what it means to be in a romantic relationship versus a close friendship. Furthermore, upon legitimizing Yolanda and Mari`s relationship the film provokes the audience to ask the question, “If they are queer, what is keeping them in the closet?” This question is most effectively answered by examining how Yolanda and Mari`s ethnicity, locational, and immigrant descendant identities intersect to keep them in the closet.

In the film industry, we see all different types of films and movies, but there’s always guidelines on what needs to be followed by stereotypes that have been built by society. In the film “The Bronze Screen” it gives us a better understanding on how the system is set up for film making but especially for Latinos in the film industry, Latinos are seen as a minority group who don’t have a lot of changes on making into the big screen, the film explains how Latinos are put in movies to fill the stereotypes that have been made by society but to be specific by the white people.

The film analyzed in this paper, "Aladdin" is set in an Arab culture following the life of a street rat, Aladdin and his pursuit to marry the royal princess Jasmine. This paper will examine elements in the film such as culture and social class through different sociological perspectives. These will include conflict theory, the functionalist perspective and symbolic interactionism. It will also explore Cooley 's look glass self theory and how Aladdin 's negative self concept affects his actions. Lastly, it will view through the feminist theory how Jasmine and women are portrayed and other stereotypes and discrimination in the film.

The film, Poniente clearly demonstrated the issues of race and class within Spain. All throughout the film, aggression from the local Spanish residents was seen towards the migrant workers. The workers, many of whom were from Morocco or other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, were underpaid for their labor, threatened, verbally and physically abused, and thought to be easily replaced by their employers. Said, for example, nearly bought his own place to live, but the landlord rented it out to someone else, most likely because of race. All these acts of violence cumulates and results in the final scene of the film; where the residents riot and attack the workers, thinking they had set fire to the greenhouse.

The video that is linked above is the eulogy speech scene from the 1998 film Without Limits, which follows the running career of Steve Prefontaine. Prefontaine was an Oregonian and a distance runner, and one of the famous names that can claim credit for the running boom in the 1960’s and 1970’s. He at one time held 7 American records, all in long distance events from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. His short career peaked with his appearance at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, where he placed fourth, though he might have won if not for his front-running strategy. In the world of distance running, leading a race is not advised in the least, since the leader tends put forth a monstrous amount of energy compared to that or other runners. This strain on the leader’s strength tends to destroy them in the end, as they are usually passed in the final stretch of the race, if not before. Predictably, most runners prefer to draft than to lead. This is because it does not compel the drafting runner to push themselves, as they may just wait and dust their competition with a swift final kick. Prefontaine despised this running strategy, and many believe that is the reason why he failed achieve a medal in Munich. Had he lived long enough to see another Olympics, he might well have become the best in the world at the 5,000-meter distance. Unfortunately, Prefontaine died on May 30th, 1975 when he flipped his car after a night of drinking. He only lived to be 24. Yet his running style and

Koyannisqatsi changed and influenced the world of cinema far more than its creators realized ever anticipated. Not only did the message and content of the film cause commotion amongst the world of art film, but cinematography as a whole with the use of new and highly innovative camera technique for the time.

After watching the screen cast on South Asian American, I was surprised by of the marriage between Punjabi (Indian) and Mexican women. As my knowing, the South Asian or specific Indian, they were marriage by their parent arrangement, and they don’t want marry people different ethic, or different religious.And on the video, I saw the dancers were mixed two cultural, it so amazing.

A film maker Natalia Alamada made a life audio recordings about her great-grandfather Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. A former primary school teacher and general of the Mexican revolution (1910-1920), Calles ruled Mexico from 1924 to 1928. One thing I observed while I watched the movie is that Alamada developed the story unexpectedly by moving the camera from one subject to another and from past to present. The most things attracted me was the unlicensed street vendors. The film begins with and returns again to the street-level realities of Mexico City including the unlicensed street vendors.

"Baraka" showed the beauty and destruction of nature and humans. Its key was to show urban life and technology compared to the environment. The film made the viewer compare the things found in nature against

Imagine being a caretaker and companion to a pet for years and then suddenly having it stolen away by a meat packing corporation for the sole intention of slaughter and use of its meat. In Okja (pronounced OAK-JAH) , a science fiction/drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, this is exactly what occurs. For ten blissful years, young Mija has formed a strong bond with Okja, a massive pig and an even bigger friend, at her home in the mountains of South Korea. This completely takes another route when family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and sends her to New York city, where an image-obsessed and self-promoting CEO has vicious plans for Mija's gentle companion. With no distinct plan but a single-minded goal, Mija sets out on a rescue mission. This film was recently released on June 28th, 2017 on Netflix, and just in the span of weeks it has left an immense effect on people worldwide. The arrival of this outstanding film at this particular moment in time, gives it an added sense of significance to the current crossfire between animal activism, corporate greed and scientific ethics. Okja is worth watching because of its action packed events and valuable lessons.