Film Has the Ability to Mechanically Record and Represent a Truly Objective Reality

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the French New Wave. Although he was alive in a different time, just after the Lumiere Brothers, his work has been carried on. Melies had taken the use of special effects and stop motion to not only promote himself as a magician but to create staggering fantasy sequences. For example, The Vanishing Lady and The Four Troublesome Heads.

He was a man who believed that film could be tweaked into whatever we want the audience to perceive. As film offers us an expressive opportunity to manipulate and distort our everyday experiences. His views having a heavy contrast with that of a realist.

The subjective reality that formalists enjoy to portray plays on the expressive use of emotion in film. The most known movement of involving this would be the German expressionism that reached its peak in Berlin during 1920. This form of film is famously seen in the work of F.W. Murray, best known for Nosferatu (1922). Murray is seen as a prominent figure in the expressionistic movement as he embodies the style in many of his films. This style consists of wildly non-realistic set designs of geometrically absurd sets and painted on atmospheric shadows. German expressionism was used to release the pain and suffering they experienced as a nation after the War, manipulating the mise-en-scene to represent how they felt. They embraced to true art form of formalism.

With all of this being taken into consideration, it is clear to see that film has always been manipulated. Even if it is to make the sequence seem natural and realistic. I believe that film has the ability to mechanically record and represent an objective reality but not one that is true. It is a form of art and even in life, everyone has their own perception of what things can and cannot be.

Film is not different.