Film Art Friday, May 31rst 2024

jonCates
4 min readMay 31, 2024
Silverrors Saloon, a 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) story (2022)

1rst, lets begin wit the question:

What is Film Art?

Film Art is a form of Media Art made possible by the creation of celluloid film technologies since the late 1800s to present. Film Art focuses on the use of the systems by artists as Art. Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is an early example from 1929. Dali is well known as a Surrealist artist while Buñuel continued in Cinema (movies) with an extensive career and filmography as a Director. Un Chien Andalou is well known for a particular shot sequence, however, i love many other aspects of this film such as these characters, actions, and moments:

known as the ‘first film on Internet’ David Blair’s “Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees” from 1991, streamed online in 1993. Blair also broke the film into interactive pieces of a Digital Art puzzle, a web-based…

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jonCates

School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Film, Video, New Media and Animation dept; Art History, Theory and Criticism dept.