natalie kalmus color consciousness pdf

One sequence stages the characters behind a white sheet to render them in silhouette; cutting around the sheet then alternates between monochrome and full-colour. The first accents are warm hues, broadly associated with budding sexuality. Camera movements reveal colour within continuous takes, characters clad in yellow, green, blue, and red interact with black-and- white figures, and cutting plays on hard graphic contrasts between monochrome and colour elements. Moreover, the binary opposition provides colour with a rather crude but well defined set of meanings. As earlier, the digital technique cooperates with music and camerawork to lend the passage its dreamlike character.

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