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After watching twenty-nine Buster Keaton films, I was struck by his use of symmetry and center framing. This is an attempt to capture that. Before Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson made it famous for modern audiences, there was Buster Keaton.
“The greatest of the silent clowns is Buster Keaton, not only because of what he did, but because of how he did it. Harold Lloyd made us laugh as much, Charlie Chaplin moved us more deeply, but no one had more courage than Buster. I define courage as Hemingway did: grace under pressure. In films that combined comedy with extraordinary physical risks, Buster Keaton played a brave spirit who took the universe on its own terms, and gave no quarter.” –Roger Ebert
// SHORT FILMS //
The High Sign (1920/1921)
One Week (1920)
Convict 13 (1920)
The Scarecrow (1920)
Neighbors (1921)
The Haunted House (1921)
Hard Luck (1921)
The Goat (1921)
The Play House (1921)
The Boat (1921)
The Paleface (1922)
Cops (1922)
My Wife’s Relations (1922)
The Blacksmith (1921)
The Frozen North (1922)
Day Dreams (1922)
The Electric House (1922)
The Balloonatic (1923)
The Love Nest (1923)
// FEATURE FILMS //
The Three Ages (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The Navigator (1924)
Seven Chances (1925)
Go West (1925)
Battling Butler (1926)
The General (1927)
College (1927)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
// SONGS //
"Making Time" by Creation
"The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II
// THANKS //
Andrew Sullivan
dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/26/mental-health-break-691/
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Filmmaker Magazine
filmmakermagazine.com/93184-watch-buster-keatons-symmetrical-sense-of-humor/
Tony Zhou
twitter.com/tonyszhou/status/668133970261884932
Yorokobu
yorokobu.es/simetria-cine/
