Episode film
An episode film consists of a number of narrative independent, completed short films by one or more directors . The term can also refer to the interweaving of episodic storylines that either deal with a topic or are heading towards a common finale and are taken up again and again in the course of the film. The episodes usually have a common theme or have points of contact. An overarching framework is also possible ; continuous storylines, on the other hand, are unusual. The demand for a unity of action, place and time , which has existed since antiquity, is abandoned; a main character ( "Hero") does not exist.
Examples
One of the earliest and most famous episode films is the rotated in 1916 Intolerance by DW Griffith . The dramaturgical connection of the individual episodes can be made by the same or the same object, as in the films In those days ( Helmut Käutner , 1947) and in The Yellow Rolls-Royce ( Anthony Asquith , 1964), in each of which a car and its different Owners are the focus of the act. Further examples are The adventures of a ten-mark note ( Berthold Viertel , 1947), a rifle in Winchester 73 ( Anthony Mann , 1950), a stairwell in Roma Ore Undici ( Giuseppe De Santis , 1952), a violin in The Red Violin ( François Girard , 1998) or the same or the same place, for example a city and its music in Nashville ( Robert Altman , 1975), a district in Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993), a taxi in Night on Earth ( Jim Jarmusch , 1993) or a common or similar narrated situation, e.g. B. Post-fascist Italy in the days of American liberation in Paisà ( Roberto Rossellini et al., 1946). or a night in everyday Berlin city life in night shapes ( Andreas Dresen , 1999)
TV Shows
Since TV series (e.g. Bonanza , Dallas , Denver-Clan , Two and a Half Men or The Big Bang Theory ) are almost always episodic and have shaped viewing habits for decades, there is a mutual influence between film and television probably. The following quote should also be understood in this context: The most conspicuous dramaturgical measure [in episode films] is the inconsistency of conflicting situations.
More recent examples
- Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino
- Four Rooms (1995), four - only partially overlapping - stories by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and others
- Indeed ... Love (2003), by Richard Curtis
- LA Crash (2004) by Paul Haggis
- Trilogy Amores Perros , 21 grams and Babel (2000–2006) by the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Nine Lives (2005), a women's film by Rodrigo García
- Paris, je t'aime (2006), Arrondissements of Paris by 18 different directors
- The Austrian Method (2006), a German production that was created in the collective collaboration of five young directors who were friends
- Mothers and Daughters (2009), Hollywood film directed by Rodrigo García
- Germany 09 (2009), 13 short films by renowned German directors (including Fatih Akin , Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer ) "on the State of the Nation"
literature
- Andreas Schreitmüller : Films from Films. Possibilities of the episode film. Oberhausen 1983, ISBN 978-3874680189
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ episode film. In: Lexicon of film terms. Bender Verlag, accessed on July 29, 2013 .
- ^ Rabenalt, Peter: Film dramaturgy. Berlin / Cologne 2011, page 161 ff
- ↑ Rabenalt, ibid., P. 168