Louie Summers Film NEA

1) The Wrong Trousers  A) 10 word description of events 2) Wasp                           B) Wasp - Near destitute mother struggling to balance social life and parenthood - A British social realist short film WWW: Effective at making you empathise with the children characters as well as grounding the viewer in the diegeses of the film through its social realist style EBI: It's far harder to empathise with or even like the mother very much at times but it can be argued this is intentional. The ending is quite dull and unimaginative. Also, Danny Dyers in the film so yeh. The Wrong Trousers - A mysterious penguin attempts a daring theft pitting him against the protagonists WWW: A charming animation with funny physical comedy EBI:

a)A 10 word description of the story/events b)The genre c)One WWW and EBI Meshes of the afternoon  A) A woman returns home and kills herself  B) Mystery? - Experimental / silent  C) A surreal depiction of something with very abstract camera work and is riddled with symbolism  - Hard to critique something so abstract with many possible interpretations and meanings but the short film is undeniably confusing, intentionally or not, as it switches from POVS to more objective camera work in a confusing way which could be said to further distort reality - perhaps her journey into insanity?  La Jetée  A) A man is sent to the past and future chooses past  B) Experimental  C) An interesting insight into our obsession with the past and how it can be the literal death of us (similar to Great Gatsby) Good use of powerful images which are made more powerful by the choice of using single frames for longer duration/ still photos  ...