Why Film is the Greatest Art Form
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Ever wondered why movies have a unique and unparalleled place in the world of art? Well, buckle up because we're about to take you on a journey to explore why film is considered the greatest art form of all time.
*Capturing Life's Essence:*
One of the incredible aspects of film is its ability to capture the essence of life. It's like freezing a moment in time, preserving it for eternity. Think about it - when you watch a movie, you're not just seeing actors on a screen; you're witnessing life unfold. Whether it's the raw emotions of characters or the breathtaking beauty of landscapes, film has a way of encapsulating reality like no other medium.
*A Symphony of Senses:*
Film isn't just a visual art form; it's a sensory extravaganza. It combines visuals, sound, music, and sometimes even scent to create an immersive experience. When you're sitting in that dark theater, the booming sound, the sweeping score, and the crisp visuals all come together to transport you to another world. It's an orchestra of sensations that tickle your senses and make you feel alive.
*Storytelling Mastery:*
At its core, film is all about storytelling. It's the art of weaving narratives that resonate with our hearts and minds. From epic adventures to intimate character studies, films can take you on emotional rollercoasters or quiet introspective journeys. The ability to tell stories through moving images and dialogue is a unique strength of cinema.
*Visual Poetry:*
Have you ever watched a movie and been left in awe of its visual beauty? That's the magic of cinematography. It's the art of painting with light and framing shots in a way that not only conveys the story but also stirs your soul. The play of colors, the composition of scenes, and the use of symbolism - it's all part of the visual poetry that sets film apart.
*A Universal Language:*
Film is a universal language that transcends borders and cultures. It doesn't matter where you're from; a good film can speak to you on a profound level. It can evoke laughter, tears, or introspection, all without the need for translation. That's the power of storytelling through images and emotions.
*Evolving Artistry:*
Film is a constantly evolving art form. With advancements in technology, filmmakers have new tools at their disposal to push the boundaries of creativity. From the early days of silent films to the digital age of CGI and virtual reality, the art of filmmaking continues to evolve, keeping the medium fresh and exciting.
*Reflection of Society:*
Film often serves as a mirror to society. It can shed light on social issues, challenge norms, and provoke important conversations. Whether it's through powerful documentaries or thought-provoking narratives, film has the capacity to impact society and drive change.
*Emotional Impact:*
Few art forms can match the emotional impact of film. A well-crafted movie has the power to make you laugh, cry, or ponder life's deepest questions. It can leave you with a lingering feeling or a newfound perspective. The emotional resonance of film is what makes it a profoundly human experience.
*Infinite Possibilities:*
The beauty of film lies in its limitless possibilities. Filmmakers can experiment with genres, styles, and techniques, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. From mind-bending science fiction to intimate character studies, film can be anything and everything.
*A Timeless Legacy:*
Lastly, film has a timeless quality. Classic films from decades ago still hold a special place in our hearts and continue to captivate new generations. The ability of film to transcend time and leave a lasting legacy is a testament to its enduring power.
So, there you have it - a glimpse into why film is hailed as the greatest art form. It's a medium that captures life, tells stories, engages your senses, and leaves an indelible mark on your soul. The next time you sit down to watch a movie, remember that you're not just watching; you're experiencing the pinnacle of artistic expression.
There are so many components and complexities to filmmaking that I don’t think the majority of people realize when they’re watching one.
I also don’t think people realize how far the boundaries can go in filmmaking compared to other art forms.
This comment gave me a lot to think about so bear with my ramblings. I think the beauty of film lies in its simplicity. For example. video games have arguably a lot more complexity and potential but I don't think they'll ever reach that potential due to the complexity of their production. Film can literally just be recorded on a phone using available mise-en-scene and lighting and if the writing/design of the whole thing is good it's (in theory) free and only limited by creativity. We choose to spend money on producing films in order to expedite them and then recoup those costs but its not a necessity. It's just how you get talented people all working on the same project who all need to pay bills.
So you're definitely right about the boundaries of film being hard to even comprehend but I'd say that's borne out of simplicity. To me motion pictures are the 3rd dimension of art with paintings & photos being analogous to a 2nd dimension. Film contains still frames & music & writing but introduces motion and the temporal aspect of music to imagery. It's a total sum of almost everything in older art forms.
But by that understanding video games would be the 4th dimension (interactivity) which in its complexity limits itself while technically having more potential than film. I don't know if this makes sense but I think film is the synthesis and sweet spot of where art should sit in the scale of simplicity and complexity in order to maximise potential creativity and video games are the example of pushing past that and losing that potential. I think there's a reason film resonates more with society than paintings, photography, books and even music to a certain extent.
Cinema is a language. As any language, it can be used to create art or not, in many levels.
It combines every form of art under the sun into one. I do agree with another commenter who said that video games are an evolution of cinema, because while cinema is passive, video games are active. But they both have storytellers, composition concept artists, lighting, music, etc.
I really don't like people trying to make their preferred media the "objectively better" art form. I think every art form can be appreciated on it's own terms without having to look down on the others. It's just a matter of personal preference and which type of media you spend the most time with because the more time you spend with it the more you learn how deep even the most niche thing can be.
It's not really looking down om the others, but film is the most complex one because it combines all the others. You have music, acting, painting, architecture, visual effects, photography, directing and editing all in one
@@robertmarginean164 Just ignoring that, for example, a cinematic Video Game like the Last of us, has nearly all of the same stuff you pointed out + gamedesign/gameplay and leveldesign. I'm just saying that overgeneralizing and saying one art form is better because it's more complex, doesn't really work or mean anything.
@@ryurare1543 I wouldn't really call gameplay an artform, like could you honestly call Rock Paper Scissors art? It's just that a perfect film is much, kuch harder to achieve than a perfect painting or a perfect effect or a perfect prop, because it requires not only hundreds of people doing their job as well as they can, but also an insane level of collaboration
@@robertmarginean164 I mean, designing games is very much an art form. Regardless if it is a board game or video game, you have to spend a lot of time to produce something that is either fun or serves the story. Look the game Immortality up. They literally produced three movies and made a non-linear narrative out of it. So if more complexity/more people involved really would mean anything, any Marvel flick is more complex to produce, than most of the black and white movies I would guess, but does it really say anything about the quality?
@@robertmarginean164 You are right!
For me, in terms of story, imagination, detail, depth, well developed characters, plotting and emotional impact, it’s still the novel. Just as the spiritual and the soul supersede physicality, so does the unseen have more potency over the seen. It’s about the imagination… the mind can paint pictures, create sounds, music and smells-something cinema can’t do on it’s own-to an even greater degree, capacity and with unlimited possibilities and potential. A more two-way inventive and creative process is involved. Film gratifies, ingratiates, etc., but through the lower senses using ones eyes, ears and in shorthand with little effort needed--for everything is done for you. Nor is it directly through the higher senses. It’s a passive experience inviting laziness and complacency. If film has greater potential, it has not yet been realized and certainly not in this current era of cinema.
Some media theory might help here. The German word gesamtkunstwerk, or 'total work of art' was coined to refer to a medium capable of absorbing other media. Originally attributed to opera, it is clear that film absorbed theater, because the theatrical spectacle can be 'absorbed' into the mise en scene of film...(i.e. Bergman's Magic Flute). The web has a similar capability for absorbing media, and can fold video into its hyperlinked structure. Video games also have the absorptive capability, but have not reached the level of narrative potential of film just yet. The miniseries innovates in that it refocuses the narrative strategies of film from less plot-driven mechanisms to more character-driven ideas. Peter Greenaway has also famously derided films for their attachment to 19th century novel forms, and Kubrick was always seeking to break out the form of film to greater effect, with his 'non-submersible unit' concept. We're still using about 10% of the gesamtkustwerk's true potential, and all of the media forms swarm around to inform the process.
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It was really informative.
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Nice breakdown. Pretty much agree with everything you said. Thanks for this!
I think you overlooked something very significant in modern expression/communication, namely: hypertext and in particular, linking.
It adds an entirely new layer to thought when related ideas can be explicitly "included", with their context, and invite the reader/audience to explore.
This has implications for your Boundary requirement, too.
I'd say the ultimate form is actually video games which can be seen as the evolution of film.
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Thank you for your thoughts and explorations. It was really interesting and inspiring in some way.
Excellent.. thoughtful.. thank you
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It is THE MOST profound art form, or medium of expression, creativity, and storytelling.
Thanks for making this great video as well as your previous ones. Just a counterpoint: (AR/VR) video games also fit these arguments and even afford more dimensions of interaction, but can (AR/VR) video games be considered the greatest art form? What would we think many years later?
How many times video games gives you tears ???
@@uttsavdeshmukhproduction4696 How many times techno music gives you tears?
I think the nature of the production of video games and how filtered any genuine creative vision would be after going through teams of programmers, I think its weakened.
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I totally agree with this video.
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I had that in mind a few days ago
Imagine having the entirety of cinema to choose from and using the Batman in the thumbnail for a video about the art of the craft lol
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I believe film stands alone! Nothing can replicate it it both exists only in the mind and in extreme circumstances (all the equipment and disciplines needed to exist and put together) amazing!
I am curios what is your opinion on using AI models, such as Disco Diffusion, to generate art. Is it art?
Tattoos, graffiti and finger painting aren't distinct from generic painting/drawing because visual art is visual art regardless what surface or implements are used (and making entire separate categories for things like sketching, doodles, calligraphy or digital art is ludicrous). Mimicry isn't an art because all art involves creativity, and accurately copying something isn't creativity. Language, physical expressions and other forms of communication aren't art forms, they're utilities - unless of course they're being used for art, such as poetry or fictive literature. Games aren't an art form any more than their more athletic cousin sports are; they're abstract competitions (although the vast majority of things people call video games aren't games at all - they're virtual worlds whose artistry lies in the construction of those worlds. Virtua would be a better term for them, and 'virtual reality' is just another name for what 'video games' already brought to the table). Although utilities like appliances and accessories *can* involve a degree of art, they fall squarely under the category of utilities, since they're things that wouldn't be created at all if they didn't serve specific utilitarian functions. Fashion is just a word for the popularity of different types of clothing, but clothing and architecture are both things that can be purely utilitarian or almost entirely artistic. All music is instrumental as the human vocal apparatus is just one more instrument. Prose is non-artistic writing by definition - otherwise it would be either fiction or poetry. Acting and theatre are one and the same; all theatre is is people acting out roles.
By my count, you're missing food/flavor arrangements (another utility that can also be largely or primarily artistic), oral story-telling, perfume, conjury (magic tricks), the art we don't seem to have a proper name for yet but usually call performance art, Thomas Wilfred's invention of lumia (which I'd say is easily a strong contender for the greatest art form), the art of interacting fluids we see from people like Douglas Trumbull, Kim Keever, Susi Sie and many others (which I've dubbed flua), and Lisa Park's invention of eunoia - although I may well be missing a few or even several recently invented art forms myself.
There is no single greatest art form. Each art form serves its own unique purpose, and one is not objectively better than the other.
i agree. art is completly subjective and there is no best way to express something through art, film is my favorite art form but it's completly subjective and i see no point arguing what's the greatest art form.
While I'm not sure if it could be categorized as the greatest art form, I've had trouble over the years convincing many people that film is an art form at all. Many see it as just a form of disposable entertainment that you watch once and forget. While that's true of a great many films there are also a large number that I would consider genuine art and many that I categorize as high art. I love the movies of Stanley Kubrick and can re-watch them endlessly, but many of my friends can't understand how I can do that. When I tell them that it's no different for me than looking at a great painting or sculpture or listening to a great piece of music they balk and shake their heads. Their loss.
I'd argue that great cinematic video games are the perfect artform. Not only is it more technical than movies (movies literally use video game technology), considering what goes into art, 3d modeling/sculpting, retopology, mapping, textures, programming for realtime, timed sounds, music, gameplay, story, replayability etc etc.
Film cannot touch video game production nor can it touch the experience the viewer gets, because it can be different everytime you play.
Great cineamatic video games put you inside the "movie" where you're the protagonist. Not to mention, movies are often adapted from great games.
Art is simply communication at its highest level.
Functional art also there
Merely stating that film is a composite art combing different arts doesn't explain why its art and higher in comparison to others.
Cinema is something that needs to notice itself from many different art forms. ...
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Many creators try to demonstrate their art form is the greatest. It is often ridiculous. It is the case here too. Reducing the strength of an art form to a purely numerical value, the number of things involved for its making is, IMO, ridiculous. There could be many more criteria and all would define another art as the greatest.
With your criteria, video games is almost greater than film but video game is not an art form. Neither is design and fashion. Those are business . Every creative activity is not art. When you defined art, you forgot an important and crucial thing : art doesn’t have a material purpose. Art is for art sake. This is why fashion is not an art. It’s a business. It’s creativity applied to clothes (and business). It doesn’t make fashion an art. When you listen to music, it doesn’t have a purpose but listening to music. When you go to a ballet, it doesn’t have a purpose but to go to a ballet. Art is for art sake.
Our times have the habits of mixing things, and making them equals. But cooking, fashion, video games, those are not arts.
And movies, on the contrary are the weakest form of art. Because they involve so many people that the artistic intention of the director is always diluted. And it’s a fixed art form. Once finished, it doesn’t evolve anymore. Its performance is frozen. Which is weak. And it’s technology dependant (which is why it appeared millennials after all the other art forms). Technology makes him weak. Without electricity you don’t have movies. But you have music, dance, painting, theatre….
Feels like Meditation, is filmmaking an art or that reveals you to yourself?
For me, Video Games are the greatest art form. Where you not only experience the story but also can interact within.
Movies are a beautiful art form, but video games are even more beautiful of a art form.
True, if done right, for instance Bloodborne surpassed basically everything made in cinema in latter decades. A multi dimensional work of art, a masterpiece. Cinema is obviously in a crisis, no denying it.
@@markot3861 I agree with you 100%, lol, Cinema is in chaos
@@KingCobra486 I can't talk about Bloodborne, since I haven't played it, but I don't think cinema is in chaos at all.
Here's a little list of movies/series that I absolutely loved from the last decade only :
La vie d'Adèle : Chapitres 1 et 2 / Blue is The Warmest Color (2013)
涼宮ハルヒの消失 / The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu / Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
ソラニン / Solanin (2010)
Only God Forgives (2013)
シュタインズ・ゲート / Steins;Gate (2011)
新世界より / From the New World (2012)
신데렐라 언니 / Cinderella's Sister (2010)
I think you're confusing cinema and Hollywood, yeah, Hollywood isn't great at the moment, BR2049 is the only one I liked recently, but foreign cinema has a lot to offer.
@@benjamindeharo314 I was really joking about Hollywood, pog
Cinema as an art form does seem to be dying.
A human acting and expressing emotion is so hard and takes extreme dedication. It is a dying art form at the moment.
It is digital humans seem to be becoming its replacement art form.
Is this the sign of our peoples dedication as a whole or just to that art form ?
Is easier becoming the “better” of our world ?
I feel the same way about photography.
Film is many art forms combined into one . It is non art forms and taking them into such a high level then capturing that combined with other things making it an art form. For example shining a light or lights onto something. Creating highlights and shadow. This is a skill and a high level skill. To capture this as an image makes it part of a picture or moving picture. It can be a small or large portion of the picture but always the most important part of any picture, moving or not. But shining a light itself is not considered an art form.
There is the art of Acting, dance , music , expression , ect that makes the meat of the film . Combine them with the non art forms and they become part of building the moving picture and thus art forms themselves. Making Film the most complex and greatest art form there is .
As you said “to me”
Literature is the greatest art form. It is the closest thing to telepathic art, and the story in your head is always better than a film adaptation's. It does the most w the least, and it's not dependent on others' quality or not.
Movies are different to series? Like series are just long movies, at least the narrative driven ones
Video Game should be In between Film and VR...
Most who think this have never delved into any other art form.
Good classification but you have not explained why film can be art and how its higher than other arts.what makes film art?
I agree on many of the points you made, however, video games still wins for me. Books have a visual limit (personal opinion). Movies have a time limit. Video games strike as an inbetweener since it is not limited by time or visuals. In video game storytelling, the pacing of the story and how the gameplay supports the story are the 'make or break' elements to a good single player experience, both of which can be solved with skilled developers. The one thing that sets video games even further is the interaction players are given in influencing the story (RPG).
Not hating on movies or books here, love them in fact. Still, nothing beats video game storytelling and it is sad to see companies moving from telling meaningful stories to cash grabbing.
Can you recommend me great games with storytelling? I find most of them repetitive and boring lol
@@sergioaguis red dead redemption 2 and God of War for best story...The Witcher 3 for best side stories
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it depends more on artists than art, I personally would say Renaissance artists and Bach (Music) made their art to be pinnacle, Film and filmmakers are still very far away from both of them in everything
This has been very technical, and halfway through it could've been much more convincing with actual examples within the film medium as to why it is being argued as the "greatest art form". But apparently all art forms are equal in this "greatness" standard.
By the definition of art being human made, is AI generated art not art? I think you could argue that but then the rebuttal would be that the programming of the AI would be the art itself. Is programming art though? I guess making a website or program does work under the definition Sareesh has given but it feels odd to consider it art. I guess the design of it comes from the graphic design or the 2d or 3d art produced for the sake of being utilised in a program or website.
The limits really become blurred when we talk about TH-cam videos as art because I'd argue a well thought out and produced/edited piece like this video is art but it's hard to consider a thrown together compilation of tik tok videos to be art. Is vlogging art? shitposting? memes? It all starts to become super nebulous at a certain point. If telling a well constructed joke to someone face to face is art then what about inside jokes that are non-jokes like just words that trigger a contextual understanding two individuals find funny because of the context.
Is art what it is because it is technically impossible to define?
i feel like tv is a better and more flexible
Literature also makes the percipient a co-creator in the art. Film cannot do that.
Folks comparing games with films. Really ??? How many games in the life make you feel cry out or laugh out loudly ?
All Art is Great Don't say that this or that is greatest
I disagree, look at God of War, It's best possible from is a video game It's beautiful and Heart warming Because you invest so much time into the video game, It wouldn't have been the same if it was a movie,
I disagree, Leon The Professional tells a similar story ( a grumpy old man who become more human by getting a like of a child) and I find it much more beautiful and heart warming than God of War.
@@benjamindeharo314 Maybe you're right, 🤔
@@Since-dw2fu Don't get me wrong, video games have the potential to tell stories just as beautiful and heart warming as movies, but more beautiful ? Because it has more opportunities to convey emotions ?
Literature is still largely considered an highest artform than cinema despite being considerably limited compared to it, for instance.
@@benjamindeharo314 I don't really know if I should talk about things I'm not qualified to talk about, maybe I should have not even commented at all perhaps, All I believe is that video games are more 3 dimensional if that makes the sense, Imagine playing a horror video game story in VR, And the story is very well done, Compare that to a movie, Which one would you be more terrified? Imagine you watched load of the rings, All 3 movies vs Versus playing skyrim vr 4K textures 60 frames per second Which one would be more beautiful? Imagine seeing a very important character die in someone's hands in a movie vs a very important character die in your hands in vr, And yes I know that's a lot of VR But you get the idea of what I'm trying to say, Video games even if it's not VR in my opinion is more 3d,
@@Since-dw2fu - I don't really know if I should talk about things I'm not qualified to talk about, maybe I should have not even commented at all perhaps,
Relax, it's just youtube, if we'd have to be qualified to talk about things, the comment section would be empty.
We're just talking, I'm not trying to troll.
- All I believe is that video games are more 3 dimensional if that makes the sense, Imagine playing a horror video game story in VR, And the story is very well done, Compare that to a movie, Which one would you be more terrified?
Honestly, I've never been scared by a video game or a movie, so I can't really tell, but I see your point.
Imagine you watched load of the rings, All 3 movies vs Versus playing skyrim vr 4K textures 60 frames per second Which one would be more beautiful?
I don't like these movies, but I still find it more beautiful than any video games I've seen yet.
There's a reason why painting and pictures are rarely shot from a first person perspective, some movies like hardcore henry or some Gaspar Noe films have lots of long takes from a first person perspective, so it's like a vr shot, and I don't find it beautiful at all.
- Imagine seeing a very important character die in someone's hands in a movie vs a very important character die in your hands in vr,
Again I prefer the movie shot.
- And yes I know that's a lot of VR But you get the idea of what I'm trying to say, Video games even if it's not VR in my opinion is more 3d,
Ok, but how come the fact that's it's more 3d makes it a better artform ?
I don't think sculpting is better than painting for instance, even though sculpting is more 3d.
Video games are the future of cinema. And is the best art form.
This video is wrong. Video games are without a doubt much higher on the art scale than movies.
Nope. Games beat movies because you can take all of the same things in movies and add player interaction.
For example: Journey.
video games have a lot of pottential, but are they even art? in the current state of gaming i can't think of a single game that even tries to insert meaning to the story it tells + they are created by mostly large teams (i know indies aren't) and have no clear artist, in my opinion - video games can be art but they're not. they need some sort of auteur theory and a new generation of aspiring video game directors that want to push the medium to its limits. unrelated but even if you disagree with someone, just saying NOPE like it's a fact is wrong, especially in a discussion about arts.
its not. video games are. period.
Are you serious? Film is the lesser form of Art, no doubt about that.
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Not your best video. Very monotone. I look forward to the next one.
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By classifying you are degrading Art.
pedantic much ?