Having drawn on work by the likes of Matisse, Goya and Dali for his images, Azzam has said his Photoshopped pictures aim to show that "we are all citizens of the same world".
Currently on view at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston), the pictures aim at a more poetic kind of truth, oscillating between images photographed in New Mexico by Beondé, historical images she researched in the Roswell town archives, and evocative photograms made without a camera in the darkroom.
There was also a photo op: the women posed for pictures aiming their Tasers, Charlie's Angels style.
Tentpoles costing $150 to 200 million, formula pictures aimed at moviegoers 16 to 24, who are the movie-going demo.
This movie may not be whiter than most, but the peering-from-the-sidelines status accorded to minorities seems particularly offensive in a picture aimed at kids.
From Transformers 3 to Pirates 4, Green Lantern to Thor, the Harry Potter climax to the Spider-Man reboot, almost any picture aiming to dominate the box office is now filmed stereoscopically.
The Carpetbagger Blog The film's makers had created a deeply earnest picture aimed less at tastemakers than at people in the middle: sports fans, families, churchgoers and do-gooders.
TWENTY-FIVE yeago ago, Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" created the Summer Movie as we know it: the action-heavy "thrill ride" sort of picture, aimed at sensation-hungry younger audiences, which moves into theaters around Memorial Day and remains there, partying hard, until the school year starts up again in September.
The picture aims to show that Saito's obsession takes over the whole town and has been just under the surface for years, as demonstrated by one of Kirie's schoolmate, who drips slime, moves at a snail's pace and comes to school only when it rains.
In 1984, before the film's completion, Carole MacGillvray offered The Care Bears Movie for consideration to major studios in the U.S. Since they did not see the financial potential in a picture aimed strictly at children, they declined the offer.
These are mostly gentle, uncomplicated pictures that aim to please.
