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Analyzing the Airport Scene in Jacques Tati's PlayTime

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The film opens with a title sequence playing over a blue and cloudy sky, accompanied by jazz music then an ethereal and mellower song. It then cuts to a low angle wide shot of a modern, but nondescript office building that serves as an establishing shot for the next scene. A wide shot shows the office building from the outside and on the other side of a row of large glass windows, the viewer sees two nuns walking down a hallway. Although the location is still somewhat mysterious, this shot indicates that the scene may take place in a hospital or perhaps a futuristic/capitalistic nunery (based on the building’s architecture). Jacques Tati utilizes match cutting to link the previous scene with the next. The nuns who were walking through the hallway turn a corner into an atrium. In a wide shot with deep focus, we see the nuns continue through the atrium toward the background. In the foreground, a woman reminds her husband what he should do to take care of himself, presumably beca...
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Low Battery

shot on an iPhone 8 music: airgap - water features
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Interview with Aminata

music: Moonrise - Chad Crouch Multiverse - Ketsa
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Reflection/s

Reflection/s from Will Moonbeam on Vimeo .
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Soundwalk

My roommate and I recently visited Carl Schurz Park on 86th right off the East River as an attempt to make something of a boring Saturday afternoon. Upon returning to the city back in August, I've noticed more and more people out and about with their dogs. I don't think I've gone a day so far without seeing at least a handful of dogs leading their owners down the sidewalk. The sounds of leaves whooshing and blowing in the wind are subtly layered by the jiggling of metallic dog collars and the occasional bark. Strangers, whose dogs confidently approach one another to size each other up, bring up idle chatter (“What’s his name?” “How old is he?” “He’s a real friendly boy.”) to make light of this unexpected meeting. As I lie on my roommate’s picnic blanket while she reads next to me, the crisp pages from a new book occasionally let me know that she’s turned to the next page. I also hear the couples sitting all around me, some within earshot while others sit further away, ...
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Artist Statement

It is difficult to write this Artist Statement having only just begun my journey into Film and TV. My only experience with filming and editing is with my iPhone and not some fancy and expensive camera with all the bells and whistles built in. For as long as I can remember I’ve always created characters in various scenarios in my head where I’d flesh out these ideas and allow them to become more and more complex. But these ideas have for the most part only existed in my imagination. Putting these ideas on paper has seemed like a daunting task, as if I didn’t have the necessary skills or tools to replicate these stories perfectly and writing it down would dilute it too much, but the solution to overcome any intimidation you might feel when creating literally anything is to rip off the proverbial band-aid and just start it. And then edit edit edit until it better resembles the perfect image you have in your head. So let’s begin! My desire to venture into Film and TV came about sudde...
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