This is not Gone With the Wind

Kevin Kelly has a great post on the boon of films using richly layered photo-composites to tell their stories. 300, Speed Racer, Sin City. He’s taken to calling them Painted Films, and they represent a means of story-production that owes more to Disney’s Multiplane camera than traditional cinema.

This breakdown of Speed Recer’s compositing demonstrates how collage-like these movies truly are. Movies within movies. Film a man riding a bicycle, then drag him across the screen. No cues, no chance for him to be out place. The result is a movie so meticulously composed that it has been more designed than directed (the jilted performances only reinforce this notion).

Cinema was, is, and will always be a story-telling vehicle. That is not changing. We will always love it when strangers come to town or heroes set out on their own. Whether or not this new patch of feature film - Moving Design, the bastard child of video games, music videos, and comic books - can hold it’s own has yet to be scene.

- 15 points for ending with a pun, and go see what Kevin has to say about it.

Lawrence of Arabia