{"id":3633,"date":"2021-11-10T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/so-thats-how-you-do-an-eating-scene-how-tiktok-swallowed-the-movies\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:40:08","slug":"so-thats-how-you-do-an-eating-scene-how-tiktok-swallowed-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/so-thats-how-you-do-an-eating-scene-how-tiktok-swallowed-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"So that\u2019s how you do an eating scene! How TikTok swallowed the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The film side of TikTok has plenty of spoofs. But our writer prefers the critics, the metal-jawed burger-biting machine \u2013 and the effects experts revealing how to make a camera crew vanish into thin air<\/p>\n

Film TikTok is giving film an explosion of energy, a performative and democratised version of cinephilia that celebrates, imitates, teases, lip-syncs, mashes up and mocks \u2013 but all the time rubs up against \u2013 the movies. Susan Sontag, in Against Interpretation, called for a rich, intuitive kind of criticism that celebrates and reproduces the sensuous effect of art, instead of imposing a coldly pedagogic analysis. I think she\u2019d have loved Film TikTok. And it\u2019s happened over just a few years, propelled by people under the age of 25.<\/p>\n

Apart from everything else, Film TikTok may be undermining one of the most fundamental tenets of cinema: that the screen has to be \u201clandscape\u201d style, since anything else looks amateurish and inauthentic. British film-maker Charlie Shackleton recently <\/a>talked about mentoring a group of young Australian critics and finding how utterly steeped they were in the language of TikTok: asked to take a picture of them on his phone, he recalls his chagrin for turning it sideways \u2013 \u201cLike a fucking Lumiere brother!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean-Luc Godard collaged the movies in his epic essay project: Histoire(s) du Cin\u00e9ma. And Film TikTok is doing something comparable, though without the conspicuous cultural weight and heft. It\u2019s appropriating constituent elements and scenes then reshuffling them, or cutting in new goofy re-enactments. This juxtaposition is a critical act. Overwhelmingly, it\u2019s driven by humour and comedy, and Film TikTok incidentally adores the key TikTok trope of the doppelganger \u2014 the shot-reverse-shot of the same people talking to themselves as different characters, shot slightly from below to underline the absurdity.<\/p>\n

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\nThe film side of TikTok has plenty of spoofs. But our writer prefers the critics, the metal-jawed burger-biting machine \u2013 and the effects experts revealing how to make a camera crew vanish into thin air
\nFilm TikTok is giving film an explosion of energy, a performative and democratised version of cinephilia that celebrates, imitates, teases, lip-syncs, mashes up and mocks \u2013 but all the time rubs up against \u2013 the movies. Susan Sontag, in Against Interpretation, called for a rich, intuitive kind of criticism that celebrates and reproduces the sensuous effect of art, instead of imposing a coldly pedagogic analysis. I think she\u2019d have loved Film TikTok. And it\u2019s happened over just a few years, propelled by people under the age of 25.
\nApart from everything else, Film TikTok may be undermining one of the most fundamental tenets of cinema: that the screen has to be \u201clandscape\u201d style, since anything else looks amateurish and inauthentic. British film-maker Charlie Shackleton recently talked about mentoring a group of young Australian critics and finding how utterly steeped they were in the language of TikTok: asked to take a picture of them on his phone, he recalls his chagrin for turning it sideways \u2013 \u201cLike a fucking Lumiere brother!\u201dJean-Luc Godard collaged the movies in his epic essay project: Histoire(s) du Cin\u00e9ma. And Film TikTok is doing something comparable, though without the conspicuous cultural weight and heft. It\u2019s appropriating constituent elements and scenes then reshuffling them, or cutting in new goofy re-enactments. This juxtaposition is a critical act. Overwhelmingly, it\u2019s driven by humour and comedy, and Film TikTok incidentally adores the key TikTok trope of the doppelganger \u2014 the shot-reverse-shot of the same people talking to themselves as different characters, shot slightly from below to underline the absurdity. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film side of TikTok has plenty of spoofs. But our writer prefers the critics, the metal-jawed burger-biting machine \u2013 and the effects experts revealing how to make a camera crew vanish into thin air Film TikTok is giving film an explosion of energy, a performative and democratised version of cinephilia that celebrates, imitates, teases, …<\/p>\n

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