Beginners writer/director Mike Mills is a graphic designer and a filmmaker. The two fields have influenced each other for years. So we asked a few graphic designers to tell us about some films that have inspired their sense of design.
Keira Alexandra's Film Influences
1
The Wizard of Oz and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
They both made me realize you could make a fake reality and dress up groups of little people however you like.
2
Raising Arizona
Its absurdist cinematography.
3
Bollywood and Busby Berkeley
Films for using thousands of people as brilliant pixels.
4
The Thin Blue Line
Proving documentaries don't have to look like shit.
5
Pyscho
Saul Bass' explanation of Hitchcock asking him to direct the shower scene.
6
Every Godard film
For proving the title sequence is sometimes the best movie.
Keira Alexandra
Keira Alexandra
Keira Alexandra has worked as a designer in print and motion for a couple decades. She's been featured on the cover of Metropolis and Dwell and teaches at Yale.
Below, an example of her design work:
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Moonrise Kingdom
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
ParaNorman
For A Good Time, Call…
Anna Karenina
Hyde Park on Hudson
Worried About The Boy
Loose Cannons
Extraterrestrial
Juan of the Dead
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride and Prejudice
The Pianist