#Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky - Visual Similarities

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"Visual essay on Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky For criticism, teaching and research purposes Mail: gabrigomen@gmail.com Instagram:   / gabrifaut   Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user97326621" From Youtube channel Gabriel Gomez: Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky - Visual Similarities Both master in their craft Enjoy...

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Creative Inspiration: Room to Dream with David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker

Go slower on that...Finesse it...Paint with a fine brush. David Lynch's approach to his films, regardless of their subject matter and their abstractions, adhere very well to the principles of art. Visual and sound elements in his cinematic storytelling are brought together through rhythm and a unity of contrasting and complementary elements. Lynch, like great artists and filmmakers, considers each aspect of a film, and like the greats, keeps to heart the idea that it is all in the details.

Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker offers viewers a 20 minute film school with David Lynch. The insightful documentary opens with Lynch sharing his interest in the arts from a young age to his development from painter to filmmaker and shifts to the following topics and chapters: On Filmmaking, The Idea, Pre-Production, The Script, The Shoot, A Shot in the Dark, The Art of Directing, Location Sound, Post-Production, Cause and Effects, Audio Post-Production, and The Big Picture.

Film to me is sound and picture moving along in time...it's like music because music flows through time and there are movements and there are changes. David Lynch relates the connection between cinema and music in a similar fashion to Ingmar Bergman who claimed, When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. In addition to placing a focus on rhythm, which Andrei Tarkovsky claimed to be how a director expresses his individuality, both Lynch and Bergman make the crucial connection between cinema and music: it tends to our emotions and invites us to feel an experience. Cinema is the art of human experience sculpted in a visual and poetic narrative of images and sounds.

An essential insight from Lynch comes about when he touches upon the basis of all art: the idea. The director declares, You have ideas, and I always say the idea is the most important thing, and the idea tells you everything. The idea is like a seed. The tree is in the seed, but it doesn’t look like the tree. So, when you finally see the tree, you might make some changes, but when you get an idea you really do see the whole tree, but it’s in an abstract form. So when it comes time for this element, you think back to that idea, and you say, "Am I being true to that idea..." A person can have ideas and find a way to learn enough technology to do what they want to do. Learning by doing is, to me, a great way to do it. And most of all the things are common sense. So if you have the idea, you can think up a way to realize that idea. Lynch continues to say that there are several ways to bring an idea to life, and regardless of the budget size, there are always ways to remain truthful to the idea.

Filmmaking relies greatly on creative problem solving, a skill that is in the reach of any person in the pursuit of making films. Still, a great responsibility of the filmmaker is to stay true to the vision, and this means to allow oneself to become vulnerable to the process. By letting go of your expectations and demands from the filmmaking process, you allow yourself to become more aware of your story and how you want to present it. You too become aware of how fulfilling it is to take a project step by step and how fulfilling it is to be able to pursue your filmmaking dreams. 

David Lynch shares, They say something isn't finished until it's finished. And that's really true in filmmaking. And sometimes things take strange routes to get to where they feel correct, and where they were suppose to be all along, but you didn't know that...There's millions of stories about people who did a film solely to get work to do another film. You should enjoy the doing. You can't control what's going to happen after you finish the thing. If you don't enjoy the doing, that part of your life is gone and it's not rewarding. Enjoy the doing and then you have even a greater chance of getting the next thing. Well-said and so true.

Be inspired with Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker.