Keith Loh |
September 29th, 2003 11:29 PM |
A high def film: "All Tomorrow's Parties"
I just came back from this film at the Vancouver International Film Festival, impressed by the images photographed through Sony High Def cameras. This is a near future (science fiction) film set in a China ruled by an apocalyptic sect. It contained some truly resonant images, framed by the stark, broken up and decaying Mongolian towns and industrial crap-scape existing today. Hong Kong director Yu Lik Wai explained later that he used HD because the film required heavy post-production. The existing city and countryside were affected to add smoke effects, war destruction and also color grading to give it all an apocalyptic sheen. I loved it. He also groused about how the film transfer didn't measure up to the digital projection at Cannes (of course). For him, the film transfer was a degradation, a 2nd generation version, whereas the HD projection was its natural look. Still, it was a beautiful film and any layperson would not be able to tell it was anything but originally film.
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