Whitechapel Films

Although we attended the wrong film for the cinetrek on Sunday, we ended up watching the three different films, “An Epic Poem”, “Home and Dry”, as well as “Living the Sacrifice.” However I did not enjoy these films, nor understand them, I found the cinematography on “An Epic Poem” by Lezli Ann Barret quite aesthetically pleasing. The images used throughout combined still photography with motion picture as well as drawing and cartoons. Barret used films and photos from old to new in which brought a unique approach to the film. Throughout the film, she used cupid as a modern day man showing him in different viewpoints with a naked woman reenacting this classic cupid portrait holding a mirror for a beautiful lady while in bed. There is a repetition of this image throughout the film in different scenarios and it seemed to always come back to the original image presented. She also continually used mirrors throughout. Barret used many scenes with pillars in the background, in which I found to be a profound image. She used women walking alone throughout these pillars as a time of solitude. She also used several of the long shots with these scenery images to show the massive structures and to get a better sense of the location. Her mixture of camera angles was very unique to this film. She made her audience continually move to follow the subject, using every part of the screen for her focus. Barret used different vibrant colors of red and yellow for particular scenes as well as sepia tone shots. The cinematography of this film is quite inspirational and exclusive to her personal style.