After 4 Years, Kogonada is Back with a New Video Essay on.
After 4 Years, Kogonada is Back with a New Video Essay on 'Roma' Roma is getting its own Criterion release and kogonada essay. Lucky us! Alfonso Cuaron's Roma certified Netflix's place in cinema. It was somewhere auteurs could have their vision, reach mass audiences, and still be recognized for awards.
Kogonada is a director and writer, known for Columbus (2017). Contact Info View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro STARmeter. View rank on IMDbPro Filmography.. On Solace: Video Essay for Cries and Whispers (2015) Mirrors of Bergman (2015).
One immediately recognizes the handiwork of Kogonada in this beautifully crafted video essay he created for the Criterion Collection: a stylish supercut of close-ups of hands from Robert Bresson’s movies. The French filmmaker only made thirteen feature films in a career spanning four decades, but his ascetic style has proven timeless.
Once again adapting his narrative to his subject, Kogonada offers a poetic and hypnotic video essay on Andrei Tarkovsky with Auteur in Space. The piece focuses on Solaris and how Tarkovsky’s refusal of the genre’s concept made his take on science-fiction as singular is it can be, reinforcing instead his position as an auteur. Having never studied film academically, debates between genres.
Kogonada, the acclaimed video essayist and first-time director behind Sundance hit Columbus, populates his quiet setting with intimate conflicts, poignant conversations, and characters whose delicate observations about their reality are as endearing as they are wrenching.
Kogonada. I saved this one for last because it’s the least traditional. Kogonada is a former academic turned filmmaker who gained popularity through his Vimeo video essays that, for the most part, elegantly edit together film clips without any narration.
Kogonada. I saved this one for last because it's the least traditional. Kogonada is a former academic turned filmmaker who gained popularity through his Vimeo video essays that, for the most part, elegantly edit together film clips without any narration.