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Nelson Carvajal
Nelson Carvajal is an independent digital filmmaker, writer and content creator. His video essays on cinema have been published on indieWIRE’s Press Play and Fandor’s Keyframe. Carvajal’s video art pieces and experimental short films have screened at the London Underground Film Festival, the 2010 International Digital Film Festival and the Oregon Independent Film Festival.
3 articles written by Nelson Carvajal
- Features | February 11, 2014
Video Essay: Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson has become a film genre. Even Saturday Night Live did a spoof on this notion, re-envisioning a modern horror film as a Wes Anderson comedy for one of their digital shorts. And although the auteur would not...
- Features | February 7, 2014
Video Essay: Social Anthropology In Narratives of Darren Aronofsky
From the outset, the films of Darren Aronofsky seem as different from each other as any filmography can be. There’s the microbudget black and white feature debut Pi; the drug-addled, head-spinning Requiem For A Dream; the ambitious, time-spanning love...
- Features | April 8, 2013
Video Essay: The Screen Poetry of Terrence Malick
At the core, the cinema is the most powerful art form between sound and image. From his most direct, plot-driven narrative, Badlands, to his most abstract, polarizing film The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick has been progressively moving toward...