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Moscow International Underwater Film Festival «Golden Dolphin» -
thematic scope of the Film Festival includes films telling about
interaction of people and underwater world; mentions problems connected
with an ecological situation, reclamation, exploration of underwater
and seaboard spaces in general.
Much has changed since times of brothers Lumiere and their
well-known movie screening – the train arriving on the platform.
Becoming founders, they have given a push for development of a
documentary cinema in its entirety. Initially documentaries do not have
to think out plots and characters or to write dialogues. They also do
not need actors, grease paint and set dressing. Their material is life
itself that gives us moments able to surprise and amaze, express idea
and feelings – you just need to manage to wait for this moment, to see
it and to shoot it in time.
Then were a film-sketch, film-research, social journalism,
film-diary, road-movie, film-portrait, film-prose, film-tragedy…to talk
enough about the variety of documentary genres is impossible. They
change, new genres appear time and again, experimental – cross-style
between fiction film and non-fiction film or between cinema, literary
and musical genres.
In 1943 with an invention of an aqualung, great Cousteau has enabled
to glance into the unknown and wonderful underwater world, and by doing
this, he has started a quite important area of focus. With the
appearance of the first shootings, underwater cinematography has shown
oneself to be an art and, gradually, has started to develop
differences, its’ own features and the originality.
Today popularity and demand of underwater shootings is
incontestable. It is not only beauty of flora and fauna, singularity of
underwater inhabitants, but also an ecological and scientific
orientation. Besides the fact, that professionalism and skills of
camera operators in the field of underwater shootings are widely used
in theatrical films.
It could seem that everything is already familiar and explored, and
there is nothing, that can surprise an inquisitive spectator… However,
modern technique allows working wonders, having given to many people an
opportunity to make independent films. You can see the result of this
work on the screen of Moscow International Film Festival «Golden
Dolphin».
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Moscow International Photo Festival «Golden Dolphin»
is a feast for all those who are engaged in an underwater shooting or
simply like to contemplate beauties of the underwater world.
Photographers from all Russia and foreign countries gather here in
order to communicate to interesting people, to look at an exhibition
critically, to visit master classes on underwater photo, to discuss
with consultants of various firms novelties of video and photo
industry, to admire author's galleries and, certainly, to visit the
ceremony of rewarding of winners in order to know the name of the best
photographer of this year.
Here, during these days, when the Festival is carried out, an
atmosphere is simply interesting to be in. All around you can hear
questions: "At what depth the picture was made?", "And which objective
was used?" or "Do not miss testing of the new camera in 6 meter pool!",
"There is a breath-taking film about white sharks at the cinema!"
Underwater photo has received recognition from the public and has
become so popular lately. So-called "technical" art associates with
something bright, colorful, surprising with unusual forms and sometimes
with quite strange figures.
Surprising and unknown world where everything is different. In order
to feel sensation of unreality you just need to dive, having fetched
along your camera. It is quite unimportant if you dive with an aqualung
or if you dive with a delay of breathe with mask and tube. However,
very few people reflect, that the underwater world looks in another
way, than we are used to see it in pictures. There is a set of nuances
that make a picture valuable.
At all times underwater theme attracted people. Nowadays, when
modern technologies have developed – we just have to say thank you to
Jacque Yves Cousteau who has invented an aqualung and has presented an
abyss to people.
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