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Blacklie II includes my abstract photograpy

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 17, 2017 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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I have some abstract photographs in Blacklie II. Now available here






 
Order my book - Beyond Spatial Montage - now in print!

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 20, 2016 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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My 25-year long project concerned with windowing and collage/spatial montage is now available on amazon.com. Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, this study critiques both cinematic realism and Manovich's proposal of "spatial montage." This new taxonomic framework for conceptualizing linkages between media art and narrative cinema opens new areas of experimentation for todays film editors, motion designers, and other media artists.

You can read a preview here.






 
Abstract Photographs

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 27, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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I made a series of fully abstract darkroom images between 1989 and 1994 that are available in a book from Amazon.com.

They represent an aggressively edited sample of what began as a darkroom experiment with solarization that expanded, to include photograms, but ultimately eliminated physical objects entirely to create complex visual imagery from chemical flows and pure light. The abstract images this process created are unique, produced without the intervention of camera or negative.






 
A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 9, 2015 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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My new book that explains the basics of what research is for and how to use it when writing critical examinations of motion pictures that do not tell stories. Explained using clear examples taken from published writing, this book shows how to approach a writing assignment from beginning to completion, covering such topics as "The Purpose of Research," "How to Create and Use a Close Reading," "The Relationship Between Writing and Revision," and "Common Problems and Their Solutions." This book is an essential guide for any student writing about motion graphics. The process it presents has one simple goal: writing clearly for publication.

A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics, by Michael Betancourt, $19.95






 
Experiments in Cinema 8.53 Festival DVD

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 16, 2013 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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My movie Antag | Protag is included in the Experiments in Cinema 8.53 Festival DVD set. Every year the festival releaases a DVD with movies shown in their programs, allowing people who couldn't make it to see what was shown. I think this is a great idea and I wish more festivals would do something similar.