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January 07, 2010
Reality Reality
This is a virtuoso piece of filmmaking, but what makes it so astonishing isn't readily apparent to the viewer. At first blush, it's an interesting meditation on architecture, photography, light and texture, featuring a number of showy examples of shallow depth of field, focus shifting rapidly from the background to the fore and back again.
Here's the thing, 'tho: It's all computer generated. Every last image, if Alex Roman, the auteur who created it, is to be believed. There are a couple of shots that strike me as looking a little CGI-ish, but they are few, eclipsed by the overwhelming number of scenes that look like, well, like Reality Reality, not Virtual Reality.
I'm somewhat suspicious that we're being hoaxed, that Alex Roman is having us on, because I cannot believe that a man with a computer can so convincingly recreate reality.
Stunning.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 7, 2010 10:39 PM
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