What is an Auteur?
Four Trailers
Judge Dredd - www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-eI5oLlIeY&t=
Never Let Me Go - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiRZhDEo8A
Annihilation - www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OP78l9oF0&t=
Script Development
Video Interview (15 mins): Alex Garland: how we made Ex Machina | BFI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIugmpD9UXk&feature=emb_title
Guardian article - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/11/alex-garland-ex-machina-interview-the-beach-28-days-later
Influences on Garland
Familiar Themes?
The Evolution of Robots in Movies & TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yod4lziPgno
Robots in the Movies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtbnbcasYY0
Homework Task
Watch the second video interview with Garland and the short articles all linked to below.
Garland speaks explicitly about film being a collaborative medium and how the idea of him being an auteur is not correct. Yet others see him as an Auteur. Do you agree? Write at least three paragraphs defining what an auteur is, then giving the case for and against Garland as an auteur, explaining why you agree or disagree with him.
Video Interview (30 mins): Alex Garland: "Ex Machina" | Talks at Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIugmpD9UXk&feature=emb_title
Ex Machina’s Alex Garland talks robots and why the auteur theory is “bullshit” –
Alex Garland: An Auteur in the Making? -
