Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Influences
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Although the history of cinema is shorter than other art forms, it’s long enough to allow us to draw inspiration from films. However, I think it’s important to look beyond cinema and find influences in other art forms as well, such as classic visual arts, music, and books.”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film. Learn how to write, shoot, and post-produce a meaningful short film using minimum resources.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences We all know cinema is an art form and it's a bit a combination of different little sub-art forms and they all combine into one because the history of cinema now is not as long as visual arts, fine arts, and music, but it's long enough that you could pick up influences from cinema from the '40s and '50s. I love this kind of cinema and the directors from that time. I like to think of influences in terms of genealogy. As much as I'm influenced by filmmakers, I'm also influenced by paintings. For example, the Pre-Raphaelite movement was a huge influence when I started making my fir...”
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Course summary for: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
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Iliès Terki
A course by Iliès Terki
Iliès Terki is an Algerian-born film director based in Hamburg, and the founder of his own creative studio, which specializes in short-form fiction. He started his career as a cover designer in the music industry before going on to study communications and visual arts in Madrid and Paris. He later studied art direction in Hamburg and New York, and went on to work in an advertising agency, where he was introduced to high-end filmmaking and realized it was what he wanted to pursue. Iliès began experimenting with filmmaking in his spare time and, in 2015, quit his job to launch his career in the art form.
Since then, Iliès has established his own studio, Idle Films, which has produced a series of 52 fiction stories and small vignettes. He has also worked with brands including adidas, BMW, Renault, Netflix Germany, UNICEF, Penguin Random House, and Haribo.
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