History of Cinema is a 2008

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

 Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 Experimental film

Experimental film

Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...

 directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian avant-garde filmmaker associated with the Remodernist film movement....

. The film is an experimental derivation from the concept of cinema with expressing this perception through images & sound. This 33 minutes mini feature film aims to reflect the notion of seventh art with complete personal and free interpretation.

Production

Rouzbeh Rashidi shot this film with web-cam and mobile-phone cameras between 2002 - 2004. Each segments of the film was shot & edited separately and compiled them together in 2008 for final version. Rouzbeh Rashidi used archival footage from the early films of cinema and integrated them with the rest of materials in order to create the sense of history. The film is heavily saturated, grainy and full of distorted images. The soundscape designed by Rouzbeh Rashidi later on added into the film with chosen music. History of Cinema, is a mathematical, often symmetrical progression of ideas, both physical and ideological.

Reception

History of Cinema Premiered in the Global Cinema Festival 2009 in India.

Lucca Film Festival 2010 - (An)Other Irish Cinema Category

External links

• History of Cinema on Mubi (website)