Mitchell Leisen's seductively composed visuals neglect few opportunities for erotic display, with chorus girls who seem even more objectified than the members of Busby Berkeley's competing kick lines at Warner Brothers.
In regards to the story, Salon columnist Andrew O'Hehir avouched that the "crisp" and succinct narrative matched up to the "beautifully composed" visuals of the film.
In her L.A. Times review, Sheri Linden said, "Such inventively surreal virtues mark Maya Vitkova's ambitious debut feature as the arrival of a bracing cinematic talent … she fuses artfully composed visuals and stinging black comedy around a lead performance, by Irmena Chichikova, of stunningly unapologetic gloom".
Well actually it is a bit natural, because the way I think in terms of concepts and in terms of composing visuals, video, or even static images is affected partially by my studies in architecture (which thankfully also involved a quite interesting range of thematic fields like graphic design, visual arts, philosophy, and cinema).
The sensory information available is usually composed of visual information about the object to reach for (called external visual information in the following), visual information about the body's effectors (called body-related visual information in the following), and proprioceptive information about the body's effectors.
"I wanted a very composed, peaceful visual style to tell a story that was full of emotional tumult," he says.
Our system of perceptual memory is composed of visual primitives from our stereo system, called proximity spaces.
Through this process, all images from the training and the test sets may be considered as a "document" composed of "visual words" from a finite vocabulary.
That these works compose a visual language built on a grammar of images is an insight others have had.
Composing these visual materials into a striking and harmonious presentation is a creative design problem itself.
