Featured Video: Frames of Reference

June 12th, 2008 |

If you follow the film blogosphere at all, you’ll have probably seen this, but if not, here you go. Dozens of film clips are edited together according to contentual and contextual shot similarity to the music “Complex City” by Oliver Nelson. It’s quite captivating. The film is by Jonathan Lapper, and originally appeared on his blog, Cinema Styles, which is always worth a read. The full list of films used, as well as the thinking that went into the editing choices, is here. I get tired just thinking about all the work he had to have put into capturing and editing this. Great work, Jonathan.

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    Just finished watching this. Plus reading the creator's post about it. I agree, very well done, and obviously with a lot of thought and work. Since I had not seen 80% of the films used, I know I missed A LOT, but it could see what he was doing with the "similar scenes" theme. Sorry Jonathan cannot use his real name on his blog.....
  • Yeah, I hadn't seen all the films either, and didn't recognize the clips from several of the ones I had seen! Even so. I keep wanting to do something like this myself, but I always get overwhelmed by the time it would take.
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