Digital Cinema

What is new or different about digital cinema compared to traditional filmmaking?

"Mission to Earth"is an example of digital cinema. Compared to traditional filmmaking, it is quite different. Firstly, the storyline is special. It is about a girl (Inga) from ALPHA-1 who was sent to the earth to finish her mission. ALPHA is a place which was twenty years behind the earth in both cultural and techonologically. Inga is a immigrant from other place; she therefore had a complicated feelings of her hybridized identity. In fact, this film reflects the psychrological ill feelings of people towards "identity" in modern and global cities in the actual world. Throughout the whole movie, a male narrator was the only person who tells the story. There is no conversation. Only the male marrator. It makes people feel calm but sad because of  his a peaceful, flat, quiet tone. The main character Inga did not speak anything in the film, which create a cold, helpless image of her. Usually in the traditional film,

For the structure of the film the presentation of the moving images is unique and rarely used by the traditional filmmaking. The movie includes three different scene playing in the same time. Although they are different, they are somehow connected. For example, when it rains, one of the scene contains visual images is playing some graphic images in linear flow, which represents the anxious and heavyhearted mood of the main character. The moving graphic helps the story to develop the mood of the character. It is very innovative. There is no words describing the depressed and melancholy mood of the movie, but the graphic images can clearly convey the messages to people.

What other art forms (eg early film, digital art, painting, websites etc) does this film remind you of? Explain each similarity.

This film makes me remind of the artwork of Mondrian, whose artwork usually contains a lot of grid square with vertical and horizontal black lines and three primary color. The movement of the graphic images in the film looks similar to this pattern.

I also think of Mary Flanagan: [domestic] 2003, which contains some linear flow background like the moving graphic images of the film.