About

Welcome to Experience Film – a visceral, psychological perspective on modern cinema! If heart-pounding Oscar movie montages are your thing, you’ve come to the right place.

I enjoy writing about movies. But I especially enjoy editing rhythmic Montages. Combining cinematic action, music, dance and martial arts elements for an immersive, novel experience.

I’m heavily inspired by The Kuleshov effect, named after the Russian filmmaker who demonstrated that two sequential images together hold much more meaning than they do separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. “If a man smiles at a baby he’s a kind man. If he smiles at a girl in a bikini he’s a pervert.” —Hitchock.

Have you ever synced up Pink Floyd’s Dark Side The Moon with The Wizard of Oz? That’s the experience my art stems from. Editing just syncs it precisely. The goal is the same: to get you in touch with and fascinated by your own subjective thoughts, feelings and impressions.

“We need emotional content.. Don’t think! Feel. -Enter The Dragon

Good films make us think, and even better ones make us feel something. However, the best films, for me, are the ones that fundamentally alter how we think and feel about something in the first place. To do this films must successfully tie new ideas to pre-existing ones, so that we have a foundation on which to leap, so to speak, to wherever novel territory a film asks us to go.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) not only hurls us to novel terrain, it delivers us back home with a brand new outlook. Stuck with her family on a dull plot of farmland in Kansas, Dorothy dreams of an escape somewhere over the rainbow. Only after landing there and becoming disenchanted does she come to realize there’s no place like home. What once appeared drab and boring is now desirable.

Inside Out (2015) actually changes the way we think about emotions. We all want to be happy, but Joy alone cannot do the job; sometimes we must experience another emotion first.

By challenging our preconceptions, great films like The Wizard of Oz and Inside Out open doors to new possibilities for thought, feeling and behavior within us. These are the movies I’ll tend to favor here. Naturally, I’m inclined to favor the movies that profoundly affect me, but might not profoundly affect or inspire you. Therefore, I need you to balance me out. Please give me suggestions for new movies as you watch them!

The best way to offer your suggestions is to post in the comments section below each episode. I will also pose questions throughout each episode and I hope you will share your answers and feedback with me and other users.

~E.F.