{"id":189143,"date":"2021-02-26T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eremita-anthologies-harbors-appeal-beyond-the-average-pandemic-response-movie\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:16:00","slug":"eremita-anthologies-harbors-appeal-beyond-the-average-pandemic-response-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eremita-anthologies-harbors-appeal-beyond-the-average-pandemic-response-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Eremita (Anthologies)&#8217; Harbors Appeal Beyond the Average Pandemic Response Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a383e551a761\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a383e551a761\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eremita-anthologies-harbors-appeal-beyond-the-average-pandemic-response-movie\/#Eremita_Anthologies_releases_on_VOD_on_February_26th_with_all_profits_to_be_donated_to_Amnesty_International\" >Eremita (Anthologies) releases on VOD on February 26th, with all profits to be donated to Amnesty International.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Eremita (Anthologies)&#8217; Harbors <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>eal Beyond the Average Pandemic Response Movie<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9-->When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world shuddering to a halt in March 2020, it forced virtually every film set on the planet to shut down, leaving many filmmakers across the globe twiddling their thumbs. In the weeks and months that followed, directors have responded to this enforced downtime the only way they know how: creating.<\/p>\n<p>From Mati Diop\u2019s <em>In My Room<\/em> and Spike Lee\u2019s <em>New York New York<\/em> to Martin Scorsese\u2019s quarantine film and the seventeen shorts that make up the anthology collection <em>Homemade<\/em>, seeing how directors are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nonfics.com\/the-follow-up\/\">parsing this unique period<\/a> is now virtually an entire genre within itself. <\/p>\n<p>Most of these projects have benefitted from the usual post-production processes: sound teams, for example, were able to work on the aforementioned films remotely<strong>, <\/strong>a fact that has prevented their credit sequences from running as short as they might have been. But with nearly all of these projects being self-shot, a tacit question lies at the heart of the pandemic-response genre: what about cinematographers?<\/p>\n<p>With <strong><em>Eremita (Anthologies)<\/em><\/strong>, director and project curator <strong>Sam Abbas<\/strong> seeks to answer that very question via the medium of film itself and, in doing so, invert a staple of this new genre: directors flexing their cinematographic skills. An eclectic collection of (mostly) documentary shorts that takes its somewhat esoteric name from the Latin for \u201chermit,\u201d the movie spotlights the directorial visions of the cinematographers behind such visual stunners as <em>The Florida Project<\/em>,<em> Madeline\u2019s Madeline<\/em>, and <em>Siberia<\/em>: namely, <strong>Alexis Zab\u00e9<\/strong>,<strong> Antoine Heberl\u00e9<\/strong>, <strong>Ashley Connor<\/strong>, <strong>Soledad Rodriguez<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> Stefano Falivene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The most im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te comparison to be made is to <em>Homemade<\/em>, Netflix\u2019s compilation of shorts directed by the likes of Kristen Stewart, Pablo Larra\u00edn and cinematographer Rachel Morrison, but <em>Eremita\u2019s<\/em> concept also calls to mind a project from the \u201890s: French artist Michel Zumpf\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/237607501\">Le Geographe Manuel<\/a><\/em>, which granted directorial responsibilities to seventeen DPs including the legendary Raoul Coutard and Agnes Godard. Linked only by the fact that they were shot on the same amount of film using the same camera (the 35mm Cameflex, a favorite of the French New Wave), Zumpf organized the resulting collage of responses under one overarching theme: the signs of the Zodiac.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eremita<\/em> uses a similar framework. Project curator Abbas gave his collaborators discretion to shoot whatever they liked, but he applied ascetic limits to production: contributors could use only their cell phone cameras, and they were barred from spending any money on equipment. After giving the directors final cut, Abbas then assembled their shorts in a manner that took loose inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s philosophical novel <em>Thus Spoke Zarathustra<\/em>, presumably selected because it\u2019s a paean to solitude \u2014 the chief theme of the pandemic-response genre.<\/p>\n<p>That connection feels under-explained, however \u2014 strained, even. An initial title card briefly declares the book\u2019s enigmatic concept, and some chapter cards borrowed from the book are inserted throughout, but these don\u2019t provide enough information to really establish a correlation, especially for viewers not versed in Nietzsche\u2019s rather esoteric writing. It\u2019s hard to understand why this particular association is forced on the movie, or even why it needs such a cerebral analogy in the first place. That kind of contrived framework might work in an art gallery installation like Zumpf\u2019s film, but to a VOD release seeking a more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> audience like Eremita, it just adds an awkward, superfluous layer. It might\u2019ve been wiser to opt for <em>Homemade<\/em>\u2019s unabashedly grab-bag approach to structure instead.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, this framework isn\u2019t exerted too forcefully over the shorts, which are largely allowed to speak for themselves. <em>Eremita<\/em> remains a compelling watch thanks to its open-ended brief, which lays the groundwork for a sweeping range of responses, both in style and content. Its chapters run the gamut, ranging from the introspective to the voyeuristic and the everyday to the surreal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/eremita-anthologies-soledad-rodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"Eremita Anthologies Soledad Rodriguez\" class=\"wp-image-363460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/eremita-anthologies-soledad-rodriguez.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/eremita-anthologies-soledad-rodriguez-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Zab\u00e9\u2019s vignette, for instance, opens with a crawl along the Venice Beach boardwalk, mostly deserted except for the homeless encampments that occupy the curb. Images of LED street signs flashing official advice \u2013 \u201cPLEASE STAY 6FT APART!\u201d \u2013 are ironically spliced against survey shots of cramped tents and candid interviews with their residents, a juxtaposition that\u2019s drily reflected in the short\u2019s title: <em><strong>Shelter in Place<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other chapters go indoors to evoke the claustrophobia of that government order. Heberl\u00e9\u2019s short, the only scripted film of the bunch, is an early cinema-inspired piece that depicts the blossoming of a relationship within the confines of an apartment building. Falivene\u2019s slice-of-life short, on the other hand, documents some of the radical changes made to daily life in the past year. Cooped up in the same Roman apartment, he and his family Zoom-school, process the enormity of the pandemic, and commiserate with colleagues over Skype about movie sets\u2019 impossible new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez\u2019s contribution, <em><strong>Solsticio de Invierno<\/strong> <\/em>(<em>Winter Solstice<\/em>), evokes a <em>Rear Window<\/em>-esque sense of housebound voyeurism. Partly shot through a binocular perspective from indoors, her camera restlessly combs the outside world until it finds something worth watching. Rodriguez\u2019s film is <em>Eremita<\/em>\u2019s opener, and it\u2019s immediately followed by an interlude shot by Abbas, who trains his static lens on rumpled bed sheets for several minutes as music plays in the background. <\/p>\n<p>The placement of these shorts at the outset of <em>Eremita<\/em> feels designed to establish a decidedly meditative mood over the anthology and encourage viewer patience, but not every contributed film requires it. Ashley Connor\u2019s <em><strong>A Well Watered Woman<\/strong><\/em> is a sharply edited blast of energy: she makes eerie thrills out of the everyday, casting familiar sights like her own body in fresh, wonderstruck ways. Her cinematographic work has often tended towards the intimate; she has a strong instinct for physicality, as demonstrated by her work on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> like <em>Flames<\/em> and <em>The Miseducation of Cameron Post<\/em>. Here, that eye is turned on herself, as she shoots her own body with keen sensual awareness, paying close consideration to the way steam rises from her skin in the bath, or to the distorting effects of water and reflections on the body. Extreme close-ups turn her skin into landscape, a surreal contortion that, alongside the film\u2019s experimental ending and ominous electronic score, brings to mind recent iterations of body horror like <em>Annihilation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Each short in <em>Eremita <\/em>grants us a precious peek into areas of its editor-director\u2019s creativity that we may not yet be aware of; precious because, for once, it isn\u2019t filtered through the directorial vision of someone else. For at least one of the cinematographers involved, that was the project\u2019s attraction: being able to have \u201ccomplete ownership\u201d over their work. For us as audiences, Eremita\u2019s role-switching opens up myriad new routes through which to understand these cinematographers and the images they produce. The damning sense of paradox and amplification of marginalized voices in <em>Shelter in Place<\/em>, for example, suggest its director is driven by a humanistic impulse: a connection that, once made, can help to shed light on Zab\u00e9\u2019s work in <em>Fistful of Dirt<\/em> and <em>The Florida Project<\/em>, which similarly explores life in the shadows of a fairy-tale city with palpable empathy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this fascinating lens that extends <em>Eremita<\/em>\u2019s value beyond that of a pandemic curio. Few projects grant us opportunities like this, to see what some of the most exciting image-makers working in film today would choose to shoot if they were given entirely free rein: no one else\u2019s script to follow, no director dictating over their shoulder. Cinematographers are usually viewed as facilitators of someone else\u2019s art: necessary, but secondary, elements in the filmmaking process. <em>Eremita<\/em> encourages us to see them as fully-fledged creatives in their own right \u2013 a worthy undertaking when even the institutions designed to recognize every contribution to the filmmaking process <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/behind-screen\/academy-reverses-decision-will-air-all-oscars-categories-live-1187338\">threaten to relegate cinematographers to commercial breaks<\/a>. <em>Eremita<\/em> offers a persuasive corrective to this kind of attitude, making it a film of note for fans of cinema at any time, pandemic or no pandemic.<\/p>\n<h5 id=\"h-eremita-anthologies-releases-on-vod-on-february-26th-with-all-profits-to-be-donated-to-amnesty-international\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Eremita_Anthologies_releases_on_VOD_on_February_26th_with_all_profits_to_be_donated_to_Amnesty_International\"><\/span><em>Eremita (Anthologies)<\/em> releases on VOD on February 26th, with all profits to be donated to Amnesty International.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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