What do you think the effect is on society of these distorted set of values?
With its angled, distorted set designs, tortured eye-rolling, and layers of dreams and visions, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) is generally acknowledged as a landmark of international cinema, not just Germany's own.
It makes use of Ron Arad's groundbreaking 360-degree Curtain Call installation to screen the 1920 German silent horror film The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, renowned for its creepy psychological thrills and distorted set design.
In films such as Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), distorted sets and unusual camera angles probed for disturbing truths behind the surface appearances of reality.
By using aggressive stylistic devices like dissolves, superimpositions, slow motion and distorted sets, they hoped to interrupt the smooth narrative flow already associated with Hollywood and impose a more subjective, self-consciously artistic vision on the world they filmed.
Q. Why do some Web sites make you copy and type in a bunch of hard-to-read twisted letters and numbers when you try to sign up for an account or log in? A. That distorted set of characters on screen is called a "captcha," a name that is really a crunched acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
There are no distorted sets or dramatic shadows but rather a kind of heightened intimacy: small rooms with rough walls and bare floors, cramped quarters for a filmmaker whose earlier work ("The Outlaw and His Wife," 1918) was celebrated for its expressive use of open landscapes.
For baby boomers who first encountered it on television in the 1950s, the Paramount "Alice," with its ominous atmosphere, distorted sets and cast of contract players (including Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and W. C. Fields) hidden behind heavy, outlandish makeup based on the famous John Tenniel illustrations represented something closer to a horror movie than a benign children's fantasy.
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Polanski emphasizes the apartment's oblique angles, enhanced by distorted sets and gradually widening lenses, so that by the end of the film Deneuve seems to be wandering a vacant landscape furnished by the odd settee and end table.
